Heart Attack Fatal To Onion Grower
Charles Brown Sr. Dies Near Alger
KENTON - Charles M. Brown, Sr., 58, of Kenton, prominent potato and onion grower and shipper in the marsh area around Alger and McGuffey for many years, died at 2:20 p.m. Monday of a heart attack while working in a field on the marsh. He was removed to San Antonio Hospital here where he was pronounced dead.
Mr. Brown was the head of the Brown & Son Potato and Onion Storage Co. with headquarters at Alger. He was a member of the National Onion Growers Assn. and a director of the Dunbar Life Insurance Co. of Cleveland.
He was a past master of Hardin Masonic Lodge, No. 113, Kenton; a past patron of the Pride of Hardin chapter Order of Eastern Star, Kenton; a member of the Miami Consistory, 32nd degree Masons, at Troy; the Alla Babba Temple of the Shrine at Columbus, and the African Methodist Episcopal Church of Kenton.
On Oct. 20, 1917, he married Fannie Helen Chavis, who died March 21, 1943. He then married T. Florence Heater April 6, 1945, and she survives.
Also surviving are three sons, Gene C. Brown of Kenton, Don C. of Columbus and Charles M. Brown Jr., at home; two daughters, Mrs. Doris L. Allen of Columbus and Mrs. Gwendolyn West of Kenton, and five grandchildren.
Last rites will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday in the Schindewolf-Steiner-Stevens Funeral Home here with the Rev. F. D. Gaskins officiating. Burial will be made in Grove Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.
(published in The Lima News, Tuesday, November 29, 1955)
Charles Brown Sr. Dies Near Alger
KENTON - Charles M. Brown, Sr., 58, of Kenton, prominent potato and onion grower and shipper in the marsh area around Alger and McGuffey for many years, died at 2:20 p.m. Monday of a heart attack while working in a field on the marsh. He was removed to San Antonio Hospital here where he was pronounced dead.
Mr. Brown was the head of the Brown & Son Potato and Onion Storage Co. with headquarters at Alger. He was a member of the National Onion Growers Assn. and a director of the Dunbar Life Insurance Co. of Cleveland.
He was a past master of Hardin Masonic Lodge, No. 113, Kenton; a past patron of the Pride of Hardin chapter Order of Eastern Star, Kenton; a member of the Miami Consistory, 32nd degree Masons, at Troy; the Alla Babba Temple of the Shrine at Columbus, and the African Methodist Episcopal Church of Kenton.
On Oct. 20, 1917, he married Fannie Helen Chavis, who died March 21, 1943. He then married T. Florence Heater April 6, 1945, and she survives.
Also surviving are three sons, Gene C. Brown of Kenton, Don C. of Columbus and Charles M. Brown Jr., at home; two daughters, Mrs. Doris L. Allen of Columbus and Mrs. Gwendolyn West of Kenton, and five grandchildren.
Last rites will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday in the Schindewolf-Steiner-Stevens Funeral Home here with the Rev. F. D. Gaskins officiating. Burial will be made in Grove Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.
(published in The Lima News, Tuesday, November 29, 1955)
Heart Attack Fatal To Onion Grower
Charles Brown Sr. Dies Near Alger
KENTON - Charles M. Brown, Sr., 58, of Kenton, prominent potato and onion grower and shipper in the marsh area around Alger and McGuffey for many years, died at 2:20 p.m. Monday of a heart attack while working in a field on the marsh. He was removed to San Antonio Hospital here where he was pronounced dead.
Mr. Brown was the head of the Brown & Son Potato and Onion Storage Co. with headquarters at Alger. He was a member of the National Onion Growers Assn. and a director of the Dunbar Life Insurance Co. of Cleveland.
He was a past master of Hardin Masonic Lodge, No. 113, Kenton; a past patron of the Pride of Hardin chapter Order of Eastern Star, Kenton; a member of the Miami Consistory, 32nd degree Masons, at Troy; the Alla Babba Temple of the Shrine at Columbus, and the African Methodist Episcopal Church of Kenton.
On Oct. 20, 1917, he married Fannie Helen Chavis, who died March 21, 1943. He then married T. Florence Heater April 6, 1945, and she survives.
Also surviving are three sons, Gene C. Brown of Kenton, Don C. of Columbus and Charles M. Brown Jr., at home; two daughters, Mrs. Doris L. Allen of Columbus and Mrs. Gwendolyn West of Kenton, and five grandchildren.
Last rites will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday in the Schindewolf-Steiner-Stevens Funeral Home here with the Rev. F. D. Gaskins officiating. Burial will be made in Grove Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.
(published in The Lima News, Tuesday, November 29, 1955)
Charles Brown Sr. Dies Near Alger
KENTON - Charles M. Brown, Sr., 58, of Kenton, prominent potato and onion grower and shipper in the marsh area around Alger and McGuffey for many years, died at 2:20 p.m. Monday of a heart attack while working in a field on the marsh. He was removed to San Antonio Hospital here where he was pronounced dead.
Mr. Brown was the head of the Brown & Son Potato and Onion Storage Co. with headquarters at Alger. He was a member of the National Onion Growers Assn. and a director of the Dunbar Life Insurance Co. of Cleveland.
He was a past master of Hardin Masonic Lodge, No. 113, Kenton; a past patron of the Pride of Hardin chapter Order of Eastern Star, Kenton; a member of the Miami Consistory, 32nd degree Masons, at Troy; the Alla Babba Temple of the Shrine at Columbus, and the African Methodist Episcopal Church of Kenton.
On Oct. 20, 1917, he married Fannie Helen Chavis, who died March 21, 1943. He then married T. Florence Heater April 6, 1945, and she survives.
Also surviving are three sons, Gene C. Brown of Kenton, Don C. of Columbus and Charles M. Brown Jr., at home; two daughters, Mrs. Doris L. Allen of Columbus and Mrs. Gwendolyn West of Kenton, and five grandchildren.
Last rites will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday in the Schindewolf-Steiner-Stevens Funeral Home here with the Rev. F. D. Gaskins officiating. Burial will be made in Grove Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.
(published in The Lima News, Tuesday, November 29, 1955)
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