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From: "Joe Stout" <>
Subject: [TNWEAKLE] Walter Brian BROWN
Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 23:08:44 -0500


Pj,



I had Walter Brown in my files but not his wife. Do you have birth and death
dates for Magdalene McClain Brown his wife.



Joe Stout



Obituary;

Walter Brian "W.B." Brown, 87, of Union City, died Sunday, April 27, 2008,
at Golden Living Center in Union City. Funeral services for Mr. Brown will
be held Wednesday, April 30, 2008, at 1:00 p.m. at Jackson Funeral Home in
Dukedom. Burial followed in Good Springs Cemetery in Dukedom. Rev. Ron Cox
officiated the services.

Mr. Brown was born July 24, 1920 in McConnell. He spent most of his
childhood in the Dukedom area and was a 1938 graduate of Dresden High
School. Drafted into the Army in World War II, he served in the 601st Graves
Registration Company 1st Platoon, Quartermaster Corps, in the New Guinea and
Luzon Campaigns as well as three small island operations. He earned a Bronze
Star and was discharged in 1945 as a Staff Sergeant. He was a life member of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars and was active in the American Legion while
living in Tullahoma, Tennessee.

From 1945 until 1966 he worked for Union Carbide in Paducah, Kentucky at
the USAEC Gaseous Diffusion Plant. From 1966 until 1983 Mr. Brown was
employed by Arnold Research Organization in Tullahoma. He retired in 1983
and moved to South Fulton. He resided at the Golden Living Center in Union
City since March 2007.

He was actively engaged in the labor movement throughout his career
holding several offices in the OCAW in Paducah and in the IUOE in Tullahoma.
He was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Fulton. Mr. Brown
was born July 24, 1920 in Weakley County to the late Bill and Delcie (Clark)
Brown. In addition to his parents, Mr. Brown was also preceded in death by
his wife, Mary Magdalene (McClain) Brown.

Survivors include two sons, Garry Brown of Albuquerque, New Mexico and
David Brown of Littleton, Colorado; two daughters, Gae Rue Johnson of
Flagstaff, Arizona and Ginny Lou Bowen of O'Fallon, Illinois; nine
grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.


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