WINFIELD DAILY COURIER OBITUARY Saturday, Feb. 10, 2001
Alfred Brown
ARKANSAS CITY - Alfred R. Brown Jr., 81 of Arkansas City, died Feb. 9, 2001, at South Central Kansas Regional Medical Center.
Services will be 2 p.m. Tuesday in Cambridge Cemetery.
Friends may call at Miles Funeral Service from noon to 9 p.m. Monday. The family will greet friends from 6 to 8 Monday evening.
A memorial has been established with the Oxford High School Industrial Arts Program. Contributions may be made through the funeral home.
Brown was born May 20, 1919, in Winfield, to Annabel (Higgins) and Alfred R. Brown. He was raised in Cambridge and graduated from Cambridge High School in 1938.
After graduation he went to California and worked in construction. He was inducted into the U.S. Army in 1942. He served with both the Eighth and Ninth Armored Tank Divisions in Europe and was a veteran of the Battle of the Bulge. He was honorably discharged in November 1944.
On May 27, 1944, he married Marion E. Warren of Fort Scott in DeRitter, La.
After Brown's discharge, he worked at several jobs before beginning his college education. He graduated from Fort Scott Junior College in 1949 and from Southwestern College in 1951 with a bachelor of arts degree in education. While in college, he played baseball and later played semi-professional baseball as well.
A career educator, he taught 32 years in Lost Springs, Dexter and Oxford. Most of his teaching career was in coaching and industrial arts where his students received many awards for their wood projects.
After retiring, he and his wife moved to Bartlesville to be near their children. In 1998 they returned to Arkansas City.
Survivors include his wife, Marion Brown, Arkansas City; two daughters, Margie Brookshire, Bartlesville, and Janice Sims, Arkansas City; a son Robert Brown, Bartlesville; two sisters, Barbara Ledgerwood, Durango, Colo., and MaryLou Ashcraft, Burden; a brother, Lynn Brown, Overland Park; four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Alfred Brown
ARKANSAS CITY - Alfred R. Brown Jr., 81 of Arkansas City, died Feb. 9, 2001, at South Central Kansas Regional Medical Center.
Services will be 2 p.m. Tuesday in Cambridge Cemetery.
Friends may call at Miles Funeral Service from noon to 9 p.m. Monday. The family will greet friends from 6 to 8 Monday evening.
A memorial has been established with the Oxford High School Industrial Arts Program. Contributions may be made through the funeral home.
Brown was born May 20, 1919, in Winfield, to Annabel (Higgins) and Alfred R. Brown. He was raised in Cambridge and graduated from Cambridge High School in 1938.
After graduation he went to California and worked in construction. He was inducted into the U.S. Army in 1942. He served with both the Eighth and Ninth Armored Tank Divisions in Europe and was a veteran of the Battle of the Bulge. He was honorably discharged in November 1944.
On May 27, 1944, he married Marion E. Warren of Fort Scott in DeRitter, La.
After Brown's discharge, he worked at several jobs before beginning his college education. He graduated from Fort Scott Junior College in 1949 and from Southwestern College in 1951 with a bachelor of arts degree in education. While in college, he played baseball and later played semi-professional baseball as well.
A career educator, he taught 32 years in Lost Springs, Dexter and Oxford. Most of his teaching career was in coaching and industrial arts where his students received many awards for their wood projects.
After retiring, he and his wife moved to Bartlesville to be near their children. In 1998 they returned to Arkansas City.
Survivors include his wife, Marion Brown, Arkansas City; two daughters, Margie Brookshire, Bartlesville, and Janice Sims, Arkansas City; a son Robert Brown, Bartlesville; two sisters, Barbara Ledgerwood, Durango, Colo., and MaryLou Ashcraft, Burden; a brother, Lynn Brown, Overland Park; four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
WINFIELD DAILY COURIER OBITUARY Saturday, Feb. 10, 2001
Alfred Brown
ARKANSAS CITY - Alfred R. Brown Jr., 81 of Arkansas City, died Feb. 9, 2001, at South Central Kansas Regional Medical Center.
Services will be 2 p.m. Tuesday in Cambridge Cemetery.
Friends may call at Miles Funeral Service from noon to 9 p.m. Monday. The family will greet friends from 6 to 8 Monday evening.
A memorial has been established with the Oxford High School Industrial Arts Program. Contributions may be made through the funeral home.
Brown was born May 20, 1919, in Winfield, to Annabel (Higgins) and Alfred R. Brown. He was raised in Cambridge and graduated from Cambridge High School in 1938.
After graduation he went to California and worked in construction. He was inducted into the U.S. Army in 1942. He served with both the Eighth and Ninth Armored Tank Divisions in Europe and was a veteran of the Battle of the Bulge. He was honorably discharged in November 1944.
On May 27, 1944, he married Marion E. Warren of Fort Scott in DeRitter, La.
After Brown's discharge, he worked at several jobs before beginning his college education. He graduated from Fort Scott Junior College in 1949 and from Southwestern College in 1951 with a bachelor of arts degree in education. While in college, he played baseball and later played semi-professional baseball as well.
A career educator, he taught 32 years in Lost Springs, Dexter and Oxford. Most of his teaching career was in coaching and industrial arts where his students received many awards for their wood projects.
After retiring, he and his wife moved to Bartlesville to be near their children. In 1998 they returned to Arkansas City.
Survivors include his wife, Marion Brown, Arkansas City; two daughters, Margie Brookshire, Bartlesville, and Janice Sims, Arkansas City; a son Robert Brown, Bartlesville; two sisters, Barbara Ledgerwood, Durango, Colo., and MaryLou Ashcraft, Burden; a brother, Lynn Brown, Overland Park; four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Alfred Brown
ARKANSAS CITY - Alfred R. Brown Jr., 81 of Arkansas City, died Feb. 9, 2001, at South Central Kansas Regional Medical Center.
Services will be 2 p.m. Tuesday in Cambridge Cemetery.
Friends may call at Miles Funeral Service from noon to 9 p.m. Monday. The family will greet friends from 6 to 8 Monday evening.
A memorial has been established with the Oxford High School Industrial Arts Program. Contributions may be made through the funeral home.
Brown was born May 20, 1919, in Winfield, to Annabel (Higgins) and Alfred R. Brown. He was raised in Cambridge and graduated from Cambridge High School in 1938.
After graduation he went to California and worked in construction. He was inducted into the U.S. Army in 1942. He served with both the Eighth and Ninth Armored Tank Divisions in Europe and was a veteran of the Battle of the Bulge. He was honorably discharged in November 1944.
On May 27, 1944, he married Marion E. Warren of Fort Scott in DeRitter, La.
After Brown's discharge, he worked at several jobs before beginning his college education. He graduated from Fort Scott Junior College in 1949 and from Southwestern College in 1951 with a bachelor of arts degree in education. While in college, he played baseball and later played semi-professional baseball as well.
A career educator, he taught 32 years in Lost Springs, Dexter and Oxford. Most of his teaching career was in coaching and industrial arts where his students received many awards for their wood projects.
After retiring, he and his wife moved to Bartlesville to be near their children. In 1998 they returned to Arkansas City.
Survivors include his wife, Marion Brown, Arkansas City; two daughters, Margie Brookshire, Bartlesville, and Janice Sims, Arkansas City; a son Robert Brown, Bartlesville; two sisters, Barbara Ledgerwood, Durango, Colo., and MaryLou Ashcraft, Burden; a brother, Lynn Brown, Overland Park; four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
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