Grand Island Independent, Feb. 8, 1969
Funeral services for a long-time Grand Island realtor, Homer T. Brown, are set Monday at 1:30 p.m. in Gollaher Chapel at Trinity United Methodist Church. Mr. Brown died Friday in a hospital here. He was 95. The Rev. Paul Martin will officiate at the services. Burial will be in Grand Island Cemetery. Visitation was to be Sunday, 3 to 9 p.m., at Apfel-Butler-Geddes Funeral Home. The family suggests memorials to Shriners' Hospital for Crippled Children at Minneapolis.
He Was born Feb. 9, 1873, at Winslow, Ind, the son of Thomas and Sarah Maloney Brown. After growing up and attending schools in the Winslow community, at age 21 he went to Kansas City and became engaged in real estate work and associated businesses. In 1912 he came to Grand Island. He was married on April 17, 1916, to Celia S. Morrisson and the family always lived at 916 S. Locust.
He was at first associated with James Buck Realty Co. here, which later became Brown Realty Co. He had actively been engaged in the real estate business here for 56 years.
He was a member of Trinity United Methodist Church and was affiliated with Masonic Lodge 318 AF and AM, of which he was one of three original organizers. He was also a member of the Order of Demolays. Other affiliations were Scottish Rite, Tekamah Temple at Hastings, the Liederkranz and Woodland Golf Club, of which he was a charter member and member of the original organizing committee. A past president of the Grand Island Realtors' Board, he was one of the instigators of the board which was formed in 1918 and at the time of his death was the oldest living member.
Survivors are his widow; one son by a previous marriage, Homer T. Brown of Van Nuys, Calif.; one sister, Mrs. Leola Nelson of Winslow, Ind
Funeral services for a long-time Grand Island realtor, Homer T. Brown, are set Monday at 1:30 p.m. in Gollaher Chapel at Trinity United Methodist Church. Mr. Brown died Friday in a hospital here. He was 95. The Rev. Paul Martin will officiate at the services. Burial will be in Grand Island Cemetery. Visitation was to be Sunday, 3 to 9 p.m., at Apfel-Butler-Geddes Funeral Home. The family suggests memorials to Shriners' Hospital for Crippled Children at Minneapolis.
He Was born Feb. 9, 1873, at Winslow, Ind, the son of Thomas and Sarah Maloney Brown. After growing up and attending schools in the Winslow community, at age 21 he went to Kansas City and became engaged in real estate work and associated businesses. In 1912 he came to Grand Island. He was married on April 17, 1916, to Celia S. Morrisson and the family always lived at 916 S. Locust.
He was at first associated with James Buck Realty Co. here, which later became Brown Realty Co. He had actively been engaged in the real estate business here for 56 years.
He was a member of Trinity United Methodist Church and was affiliated with Masonic Lodge 318 AF and AM, of which he was one of three original organizers. He was also a member of the Order of Demolays. Other affiliations were Scottish Rite, Tekamah Temple at Hastings, the Liederkranz and Woodland Golf Club, of which he was a charter member and member of the original organizing committee. A past president of the Grand Island Realtors' Board, he was one of the instigators of the board which was formed in 1918 and at the time of his death was the oldest living member.
Survivors are his widow; one son by a previous marriage, Homer T. Brown of Van Nuys, Calif.; one sister, Mrs. Leola Nelson of Winslow, Ind
Grand Island Independent, Feb. 8, 1969
Funeral services for a long-time Grand Island realtor, Homer T. Brown, are set Monday at 1:30 p.m. in Gollaher Chapel at Trinity United Methodist Church. Mr. Brown died Friday in a hospital here. He was 95. The Rev. Paul Martin will officiate at the services. Burial will be in Grand Island Cemetery. Visitation was to be Sunday, 3 to 9 p.m., at Apfel-Butler-Geddes Funeral Home. The family suggests memorials to Shriners' Hospital for Crippled Children at Minneapolis.
He Was born Feb. 9, 1873, at Winslow, Ind, the son of Thomas and Sarah Maloney Brown. After growing up and attending schools in the Winslow community, at age 21 he went to Kansas City and became engaged in real estate work and associated businesses. In 1912 he came to Grand Island. He was married on April 17, 1916, to Celia S. Morrisson and the family always lived at 916 S. Locust.
He was at first associated with James Buck Realty Co. here, which later became Brown Realty Co. He had actively been engaged in the real estate business here for 56 years.
He was a member of Trinity United Methodist Church and was affiliated with Masonic Lodge 318 AF and AM, of which he was one of three original organizers. He was also a member of the Order of Demolays. Other affiliations were Scottish Rite, Tekamah Temple at Hastings, the Liederkranz and Woodland Golf Club, of which he was a charter member and member of the original organizing committee. A past president of the Grand Island Realtors' Board, he was one of the instigators of the board which was formed in 1918 and at the time of his death was the oldest living member.
Survivors are his widow; one son by a previous marriage, Homer T. Brown of Van Nuys, Calif.; one sister, Mrs. Leola Nelson of Winslow, Ind
Funeral services for a long-time Grand Island realtor, Homer T. Brown, are set Monday at 1:30 p.m. in Gollaher Chapel at Trinity United Methodist Church. Mr. Brown died Friday in a hospital here. He was 95. The Rev. Paul Martin will officiate at the services. Burial will be in Grand Island Cemetery. Visitation was to be Sunday, 3 to 9 p.m., at Apfel-Butler-Geddes Funeral Home. The family suggests memorials to Shriners' Hospital for Crippled Children at Minneapolis.
He Was born Feb. 9, 1873, at Winslow, Ind, the son of Thomas and Sarah Maloney Brown. After growing up and attending schools in the Winslow community, at age 21 he went to Kansas City and became engaged in real estate work and associated businesses. In 1912 he came to Grand Island. He was married on April 17, 1916, to Celia S. Morrisson and the family always lived at 916 S. Locust.
He was at first associated with James Buck Realty Co. here, which later became Brown Realty Co. He had actively been engaged in the real estate business here for 56 years.
He was a member of Trinity United Methodist Church and was affiliated with Masonic Lodge 318 AF and AM, of which he was one of three original organizers. He was also a member of the Order of Demolays. Other affiliations were Scottish Rite, Tekamah Temple at Hastings, the Liederkranz and Woodland Golf Club, of which he was a charter member and member of the original organizing committee. A past president of the Grand Island Realtors' Board, he was one of the instigators of the board which was formed in 1918 and at the time of his death was the oldest living member.
Survivors are his widow; one son by a previous marriage, Homer T. Brown of Van Nuys, Calif.; one sister, Mrs. Leola Nelson of Winslow, Ind
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