Robert R. Brown

BROWN, WAGNER, FINGER, GIBSON, SHOENHAIR, ZEBOR, SMITH

Posted By: Ruth Groesbeck McDowell (email)
Date: 2/18/2018 at 16:14:30

Creston News Advertiser
Robert "Bob" Brown, Thayer

Afton--Robert "Bob" R. Brown, 61 of Rt. 1, Thayer, Died Friday morning, Sept. 12, 1986 at Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the United Methodist Church in Lorimor. The Revs. Mary and Bernard and Jim Morris will officate with burial in the Mount Pizgah Cemetery northeast of Creston. Visitation will be after 9 a.m. today with a family night from 7 to 8 p.m. at the Stroud-Lindsay Funeral Home here. Memorials may be directed to the family.

Brown was born May 24, 1925, in Fulda, Minnesota to William Bedford and Catherine (nee Wagner) Brown. He married Dorothy Finger February 26, 1950 in St Maries, Idaho.

The Family moved from Minnesota to Union county when he was an infant. As a young man he worked for several years in Idaho and California before returning to Union County in 1955 where he lived the remainder of his life. He was in the trucking and construction business and later combined farming into the operation. He was a Veteran of the Korean Conflict serving in the U.S. Army.

Survivors include his wife, Dorothy: two sons, Robert G. (wife Beverly) of Thayer and Buck (wife DeAnna) Brown of Camp Pellam, Korea; a daughter Cricket (husband Rick) Gibson of Lorimor; seven grandchildren; four sisters, Katherine Shoenhair of Delta, Colo., Mary Brown of Kent, Irene Zebor of Pemona, Calif., and Dora (husband Don) Smith of Corning and four brothers Pete (wife Grace) of Tingley, George of Des Moines, Dominic in California, and Norbert "Skeeter" (wife Mary Ann) Brown of Muscatine.

He was preceded in death by his parents and a brother Jack.

Note: Cemetery where Robert is buried now called "Browns Mountain"