September 17, 2003

The ADVOCATE

Serving Anderson, Southern Franklin and Western Linn Counties

Volume 7, No. 74

Transcribed with permission of Vern Brown



Page 5, Column 4:



“Richard W. Brown

1922-2003

Richard Wells Brown, 81, died September 11, 2003, at his home in The Woodlands, Texas. 

Private services will be held later at Higgins Lake, Michigan.  Cashner Funeral Home and

Cemeteries in Conroe, Texas handles cremation arrangements.

He was born June 14, 1922, in Leslie, Michigan to Nelson and Maxine (Ludwick) Brown.  He

lived in Mason, Michigan, 61 years before retiring to The Woodlands in 1983.

He married Elaine Pleus in June 1941, in New York City.  She survives.

He was a Marine Corps veteran of World War II and a third generation newspaperman, serving as

editor and publisher of newspapers in Mason, Ross Common, and Canton, Michigan, and the

Woodlands Villager in Texas.  He had served as a Marshal/Starter for more than a decade at the

Woodlands Country Club.  For the past two years he had been a contributing columnist to the

‘Anderson County Advocate’ in Garnett, Kansas.  He was a Rotarian and a member of the

Kiwanis Club and the VFW.

Other survivors include four sons, Vern Brown of Ottawa, Tom Brown of Traverse City,

Michigan, Bob Brown of The Woodlands, Texas, and Rick Brown of Long Beach, California;

four daughters, Kathy Miller of Spring, Texas, Valerie Gates of Desert Mountain, Arizona, Nancy

Olsen of East Lansing, Michigan, and Becky Brown of Grayling, Michigan; sister Margaret

Doolittle of Mason, Michigan; 19 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by a brother, Jim Brown, a sister, Caroline Bauer, and a great

granddaughter, Kennedy Meek.

The family suggests memorial contributions be made to the American Diabetes Association or the

American Cancer Society chapter of the donor’s choice.”



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Anderson County

Kansas

USGENWEB

By:  Lulu B. Nixon