SILAS WILLARD SUMMERSETT
Son of Rochelle Brown
Veteran of World War II, Korean War
& Vietnam
SMITHS, Al.-- Silas Willard Summersett of Smiths, died 18 May, at The Medical Center in Columbus, Ga., aged 74.
Silas was born d22 Mar., 1924 in Geneva County, Al., son of Rochelle Brown and her husband Silas Clinton Summersett. He lived in Virginia from 1964 to 1988 before moving to Smiths. Silas was in the US Army for 27 years until his retirement in 1967. He served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. He later worked for the Newport News Shipyard in Newport News, Va. until he retired in 1980.
Survivors include his wife, Karen Rainey Summersett; daughters Evelyn Andersen and Belinda Warner, both of Yorktown, Va.; sons Harry and James Summersett, both of Gainesville, Ga.; sister, Connie givens, Smiths; stepdaughter Sherri Fiquett, Ft. Payne, Al.; 17 grandchildren; 7 great grandchildren; aunts Lena Whitehead, Pelham, Ga. and Emma Goodman, Columbus.
PATRICIA MILLS BROWN
Widow of Lowell E. Brown Jr.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.-- Mrs. Patricia S. Mills Brown of Tallahassee died here 13 Aug., aged 62.
Patricia was born in Donalsonville, Ga. She was married to Lowell E. Brown Jr. Patricia worked for the Florida Department of Corrections as an accountant. She also worked part-time as a clerk for Gayfer's Department Store. She was a member of
Fellowship Baptist Church here.
Burial was in Roselawn Cemetery in Tallahassee.
Survivors include a daughter, Sharlyn Knott, Paris, Tn.; son, Lowell E. Brown III, Willis, Tx.; brothers, Samuel Baxley Mills, Memphis, Tn. and Lloyd Merrill Mills, Iron City, Ga.; 6 grandchildren.
RALPH BROWN
World War II Army Veteran
COLUMBUS, Ga.-- Ralph Brown died at the Hamilton House Nursing Home in Columbus 13 Dec., age 84.
Ralph was US Army veteran of World War II. He was retired from the Eagle and Phenix Mills division of Reaves Bros. Inc.
Burial was in Parkhill Cemetery here.
Survivors include his wife, Mary P. Brown; daughter, Frances Brown Snell, Columbus; sisters, Mary Lois Brown Cotton, Columbus, Onie Mae Brown Stephens and Bertha Brown Simmons, both of Dothan, Al.; brother, David Brown, Sheffield of Lake, Oh.; granddau-ghter, Karan Snell Windham, Phenix City, Al.; 3 great grandchildren, Travis Brent Windham, Amelia Lynn Windham and John Scott Windham.
SUSIE BROWN BURKE
Dies In Donalsonville At Age 94
DONALSONVILLE, Ga.-- Susie Mae Brown Burke died here 12 Sep. in the Seminole Manor Nursing Home at age 94.
Susie was born in Fulton County, Ga., daughter of Henry Brown and Mary Cummings. She had been the lunchroom manager
of Franklin D. Roosevelt School in the Desser Community for many years until her retirement. She was secretary and treasurer of the Sunshine Club and a charter member of the Reynolds Chapel Methodist Church.
Burial was in Friendship Cemetery here.
Survivors include daughters Sybil Kennedy, Largo, Fl., Dorothy Butcher, Toledo, Oh. and Maxine Nealy, Mays Landing, NJ; son, Charles Burke, Donalsonville; 19 grandchildren; 28 great grandchildren.
Burial was in Forest Hills Memorial Park Cemetery here.
Survivors include her husband, Rev. Deaton; father, Claude Brown; daughter, Kira Deaton; son, Scott Allen Deaton; sisters Rebecca Brown Johnson, Mary Lou Brown Durbin, Lorraine Brown Fauver, Linda Brown Wilkinson, Nellie Brown Goodman; brothers, James Brown and John Mike Brown.
DAVID W. BROWN
Ga. Natural Resources Personnel Director
MARIETTA, Ga.-- David W. Brown died 8 Dec., aged 52.
David was a graduate of Emory University in Atlanta and was Director of Personnel of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources until his death.
Burial was in Arlington Memorial Park Cemetery.
Survivors include his wife, Katherine; sons Christopher and Benjamin Brown; brothers, Donald Brown and Kenneth Brown.
GORDON R. BROWN Sr.
Lonoke Co., Ark. Civic Leader
SCOTT, Ark.-- Gordon R. Brown Sr. died in Little Rock 15 Feb., aged 94.
Gordon was a prominent Lonoke County, Ark. community leader for many decades. He helped establish the First Electric Co-op Corporation in Fayetteville in order to bring electricity to the region. He was a former member of the board of directors of the Lonoke County Farm Bureau and the Arkansas State Farm Bureau. He was also a former member of the board of directors of Lonoke Federal Land Bank Association.
Gordon received the Silver Beaver award from the Quapaw Boy Scout Council in recognition of his community service. He was also a member of the Arkansas Agriculture Hall of Fame.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Lillian C. Brown and a grandson, Kelly R. Brown.
Survivors include a daughter, Ann Brown Horton of Scott; a son, Gordon R. Brown Jr., Scott; 3 grandchildren; 7 great grandchildren.
JERRY D. BROWN
Owned Chevrolet Dealership in Metro Atlanta
BUFORD, Ga.-- Jerry D. Brown died at his home here in the Atlanta suburb of Buford 13 Nov. of cancer at age 63.
Jerry was born in Gwinnett County and grew up in Buford, graduating from Dacula High School in 1951. He entered the automobile business that year when he began work on the assembly line at the General Motors plant in suburban Doraville, where he worked for eight years. All that time, he dreamed of owning his own dealership.
He left the assembly line in 1959 and took his first sales job at Ford's Gwinnett Sales & Service, a dealership in Lawrenceville where he developed his talent and set sales records. He worked there nine years and was promoted from salesman to sales manager and then general manager. "He sold more Ford's there in a year's time than any other salesman in the U.S." said Gary D. Brown, his son.
In 1968, Jerry bought out a Chevrolet dealership in Buford. The previous year, the dealership had sold 138 new cars. That year, the 3-acre site employed 15 people. Under Jerry, the sales jumped the next year to 980, when it became the Jerry Brown Chevrolet. Since then, the dealership has sold 63,000 cars, averaging 2,400 cars and trucks a year, according to his son. Today, Jerry Brown Chevrolet covers a 15-acre lot and employs 80 people.
"It's one of the biggest dealerships in the Atlanta area," according to Walter Jackson of Ringgold, Ga., a friend of Jerry's who owns two automobile dealerships. "At one time, it was the biggest retailer in the Atlanta zone," he added.
During his years with Chevrolet, Jerry won many sales campaigns for being a leading dealer. He traveled on chartered planes with other dealers and won trips to Austria, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hawaii, Italy, Monte Carlo and New Zealand. "He didn't fish. He didn't hunt. He didn't golf. The one hobby he had was the automobile business," his son said. His son Gary took over the business in February.
Jerry was also on the board of directors of Peoples Bank and Trust. He was a Mason and member of the Dacula Masonic Lodge. He was also a member of Ivy Creek Baptist Church here.
Burial was in the Ivy Creek Baptist Church Cemetery.
Survivors include his wife of 46 years, Barbara A. Brown; son, Gary D. Brown, Buford; sisters, Rosalee Brown Blount, Buford and Dorothy Brown Brand, Lawrenceville; brother, Glydon Brown, Buford; grandson, Alex Brown, Gainesville.
TERRY L. BROWN
Owner of Brown's Paint & Body Shop
CLAXTON, Ga.-- Terry L. Brown died at St. Joseph's Hospital in Savannah, 11 Mar., aged 44.
Jerry was born in Evans County, son of McKinley and Nell Brown. He was a graduate of Claxton High School and the owner of Brown's Paint & Body Shop in Hagan for a number of years. He was a member of Gospel Baptist Temple.
Burial was in Bay Branch Cemetery.
Surviving are his parents of Claxton; sons Andy and Thomas Brown, both of Claxton; brother, Larry Brown, Glennville.
ANNETTE BROWN PEED
Retired Telephone Operator
BUTLER, Ga.-- Valeria Annette (Annette) Brown Peed died 19 Dec., in Talbot County, Ga., aged 68.
Annette was born 13 Dec., 1929 in Seminole County, Ga., the daughter of James Griggs ("Jim") Brown and Ida Mozelle (Mozelle) Alday. She was a granddaughter of Susan Martha Conyers and Sidney D. Alday.
Annette's family had moved to Columbus, Ga. many years ago. She had worked for Southern Bell Telephone Co. in Columbus until her retirement. She had also worked part-time for Gayfer's Dept. Store in Columbus. Annette was a member of Congregational Methodist Church and the Telephone Pioneers of America. She had moved from Columbus to Butler five years ago.
Burial was in Parkhill Cemetery in Columbus.
Survivors include her mother, Mozelle Alday Brown, Columbus; son, Harold Kyle Folds, Columbus; sisters, Ruby Grace Brown, San Francisco, Ca., Betty Sue Brown Stout, Alpharetta, Ga. and Carolyn Brown Collier, Columbus; and 2 grandchildren. |
ROGER BROWN
Famed Artist Dies in Atlanta
ATLANTA, Ga.-- Roger Brown, a prominent painter of the "Chicago Imagist" style, died here at Piedmont Hospital 22 Nov., aged 55.
Roger was born in Hamilton, Al. and grew up in Opelika, Al., the son of James and Elizabeth Brown. He grew up expecting to become a preacher. After he graduated from Opelika High School, he attended bible school at David Lipscomb College in Nashville, Tn. However, a life-drawing class at the University of Nashville caused him to become involved in art.
He moved to Chicago in 1962 where he studied first at the Art Institute, then at the American Academy of Design and then back at the Art Institute where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1968 and a master's degree in 1970.
During the late 1960's and early 1970's, Roger became one of a number of artists whoses interests and talents combined into one of the creative styles which defined postwar Chicago art.
"The world that appears in Roger Brown's paintings is strangely familiar, or maybe it's familiar but strange," wrote Atlanta Journal-Constitution visual arts critic Catherine Fox in 1984. It is a world easily recognized yet abstract and orderly in a way the world never is."
The High Museum of Art in Atlanta owns two of Roger's paintings. "Dawn", painted in 1980 is a large oil on canvas work which is an image of a farm enveloped by a mushroom cloud. It is on view in the Nature section of the permanent collection. Another painting "Ohio Snake Mound Tour with Burial Sites" owned by the museum is not currently on exhibit.
"His influence was considerable," said High Museum director Ned Rifkin, adding "The sacred and profane was always his axis, whether it was nature and nuclear threat; usually a critique of we humans as curious creatures."
"I knew Roger personally. I've known and loved his work, purchased his work," Rifkin said. The key thing about the Chicago imagists were the fact they were influenced by folk art and combined that into their work, Rifkin noted and since Roger was from the Southeast, he had a real good sense of that.
Yet Roger didn't like being classified as part of a group. "I feel loosely a part of the Chicago School (of art). Our attitudes were formed at the same time but we all went on to express ourselves in different ways", he said in the 1984 newspaper inter- view which covered his exhibit at the Nexus Galleries in Atlanta at the time. "The whole feeling of my work and what it is about comes right out of being a Southerner. People telling stories about living in the hills of northern Alabama," Roger said. "It made me interested in being a narrative painter. Total abstraction was never enough."
Roger maintained homes in Chicago, New Buffalo, Mich. and Carpenteria, Calif. Last spring, the Art Institute announced that Roger had given his homes and studios in Chicago and Michigan, along with his entire painting collection, to the Institute. The donation also included 30 of his own paintings, some of which the school will sell to establish a scholarship in Roger's name.
The body was cremated. A memorial service was held in Opelika.
Survivors include his parents, James and Elizabeth Brown; a brother, Greg Brown, all of Opelika.
JOAN KING BROWN
Nurse At Georgia War Veteran's Nursing Home
EVANS, Ga.-- Joan King Brown died at her home 24 Nov., aged 54. She was the wife of Dr. Leon Grayson Brown Sr.
Joan was born in Georgetown, SC, daughter of John M. King and Jane Nesmith. She was a graduate of Kingstree High School and Tuomey Nursing School in Sumter, SC.
Burial was in Cedar Swamp Methodist Church Cemetery in Kingstree, SC.
Survivors include her husband, Grayson of Evans; sons, Leon G. Brown Jr. and Walter T. Brown, both of Evans and Michael C. Brown, Newnan, Ga.; sisters, Nancy Epps and Peggy Haddock, both of Kingstree and Jackie Taylor, Johnsonville, NC; one grandchild.
JOYCE BROWN DEATON
Wife of Rev. Max W. Deaton
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-- Joyce Elaine Brown Deaton of Little Rock died 26 Nov. at age 57.
Joyce was born 6 Feb., 1940 in Sulphur Springs, Ark., daughter of Claude Brown. She married Rev. Max Wyndell Deaton 24 Nov., 1961. He is a minister with the Southern Baptist Convention.
She earned a bachelor's and later master's degree and was a teacher in both public and private school systems. She was also an instructor at Remington College. For 36 years, Joyce was the driving force that allowed them the opportunity to begin and build a number of Southern Baptist churches. She was a true helpmate for her husband in his ministerial work. She was a member of Hurricane Lake Baptist Church and a "Tel" Sunday school teacher.
Burial was in Forest Hills Memorial Park Cemetery here.
Survivors include her husband, Rev. Deaton; father, Claude Brown; daughter, Kira Deaton; son, Scott Allen Deaton; sisters Rebecca Brown Johnson, Mary Lou Brown Durbin, Lorraine Brown Fauver, Linda Brown Wilkinson, Nellie Brown Goodman; brothers, James Brown and John Mike Brown.
STEVEN SCOTT BROWN
Columbus Loan Officer
COLUMBUS, Ga.-- Steven Scott Brown died at his home here 25 Feb., aged 48.
Steven was born 22 Mar., 1949 in Seatle, WA., son of Francis ("Fran") Brown and Irene Gibson of Columbus. He was employed as a loan originator for The Mortgage House here.
Survivors include his parents of Columbus; sister Linda Piszek, Columbus; and a niece, Kristen Piszek, Atlanta.
MARTHA BROWN HACKETT
Florida Native Dies in Georgia
BUENA VISTA, Ga.-- Martha Brown Hackett died 29 Jan., at Stewart-Webster Hospital in Richland, Ga., aged 48.
Martha was born 15 Dec., 1949 in Suwannee Co., Fla., daughter of Marilyn F. Brown of Richland and the late Ewell A. Brown. She was married to the late Charles E. Hackett who died in 1981. She was a homemaker.
Burial was in Harmony Cemetery in Richland.
Survivors include a daughter, Robin H. Entrekin, Columbus; sister, Karen Phelts, Richland; brother, Bobby Brown, Richland; and a granddaughter, Rachel Hackett, Columbus.
Rev. CHARLES W. BROWN
Baptist Minister In NC, SC & VA
GOLDSBORO, NC-- Rev. Charles W. Brown died 22 Feb., aged 75.
Charles was born in Chesterfield, SC. He weas a pastor of Free Will Baptist Churches in South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia for 42 years until his retirement.
Graveside services were conducted by his son-in-law, Rev. Jim Marcum and Rev. Dann Patrick, with burial in Evergreen Cemetery.
Survivors include his wife, Shirley Spruill Brown; daughters and sons-in-law Karen and Kyle Brown and Vicki and Rev. Jim Marcum; sister, Virginia Lee; brother, Buddy Odom, both of Chesterfield, SC; grandchildren Melissa and Sarah Marcum and Jessica and Melinda Brown.
BONNIE BROWN PERRY
Owner of Kidddie Castle,
Former Columbus TV Star
PALM HARBOUR, Fla.-- Bonnie Brown Elmore Perry died at St. Josephs Hospital in Tampa, Fl. 4 Mar., aged 51.
Bonnie was born 21 Sep., 1946 in Columbus, Ga., daughter of Joseph B. Brown and Mae Curry. She had been an elementary school teacher and later became the owner and operator of Kiddie Castle Pre-School in Columbus for 18 years. Bonnie also was "Princess Bonnie" on the "Kiddie Castle Lane" TV program on WRBL Channel 3 television in Columbus.
Bonnie was a past president of the American Women in Advertising Radio and TV and a member of the Soroptimist International of Columbus. She was a member of the Sanctified Church of Christ in Columbus.
Burial was in Parkhill Cemetery in Columbus.
Surviving are her husband, Dennis Perry, Palm Harbour; mother, Mae C. Gran, Oldsmar, Fl.; daughter, Julie Morgan, Lanett, Al.; sister, Janice Fraumann, Atlanta; brother, Ronald Joseph Brown, Columbus.
ROSA F. BROWN
Retired Kmart Saleslady
MELBOURNE, Fla.-- Rosa F. Brown died here 3 Mar., aged 80.
Rosa was born in Ashe County, NC and moved to central Florida in 1980. She was a retired saleslady with Kmart department stores. She was a Baptist.
Burial info unknown.
Survivors include a daughter, Lois Brown Teague, Charlotte, NC; sons, Dennis J. Brown, Melbourne, Frank W. Brown, Floral City, Fl. and Cecil L. Brown, Hickory, NC; 7 grandchildren; 7 great grandchildren.
CLYDE ("Gibby") BROWN
Louisiana & Mississippi Policeman,?P>
BOGALUSA, La.-- Clyde ("Gibby") Brown died at Forrest General Hospital in Hattiesburg, Ms. 2 May., aged 44.
Gibby was born in Bogalusa, the son of Curtis Brown and Jeanetta ("Nell") Toney Brown. He was a former law enforcement officer for many years with the Columbia, Mississippi Police Department and the Marion County Sheriff's Department in Columbia. He was a policeman in Bogalusa. Gibby was a member of Monroe Street Baptist Church here.
Burial was in Ponemah Cemetery.
Survivors include a son, Trent Allen Brown, Columbia; and sister, Jackie Brown Toomer, Covington, La.
DOUG BROWN
Supervisor With Tampa Electric
BRANDON, Fla.--Doug Brown died 4 June at Univeresity Community Hospital, aged 58.
Doug was born in Wilmington, NC. He moved to this area from St. Augustine in 1973. He was a supervisor for Tampa Electric Co. Doug was a Protestant.
Survivors include his wife, Lily M. Stewart; daughter, Kelly Jo Brown, St. Augustine; sister, Marcie Mueller, St. Augustine; brothers, Jack Brown, Waynesville, NC, Mack Brown, Morrow, Ga. and Freddie Brown, Green Cove Springs, Fla.; stepsons, Karl Hayward, Tampa, Erwin Hayward, Brandon and Anthony Hayward, Galveston, Tx.
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