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Percival Orrok Brown

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Percival Orrok Brown

Birth
Medford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
22 Nov 1996 (aged 96)
Medford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Winthrop, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
Plot
Cross Street Section, Shamrock Path, Grave 7087
Memorial ID
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• son of William Otis Brown & Mary Tower (Orrok) Brown
• his father was born in Woburn, MA; his mother was born in Roxbury, MA
• grandson of James A. Brown & Mary Emma (Walker) Brown and George E. Orrok & Catherine (Booklider) Orrok
• his parents married on November 16, 1899 in Medford, MA
• brother of Catherine Millicent (Brown) Hope
• husband of the late Mary R. (Blake) Brown
• father of Edwin O. Brown of California
• also survived by 2 granddaughters
• in the late nineteen teens worked as a Machinist for Worthington Pump & Machine Corp in Cambridge, MA and live at 26 Vernon St, Medford, MA with his father
• in 1940s he worked for Suburban Gas & Electric Co in Revere, MA
• WORLD WAR I veteran, served as PVT in US Army
• in his 96th year
[ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910: birth v. 497, p. 537 #214]
[MA Death Index: Certificate 053349]
[The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) 25 Nov 1996, Mon Page 24]
(Death index reports birth as 6 Aug 1900 MA, but birth record says June 6, 1900)]

Parents' birth records:
father
[Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910 birth v. 251, p. 339 #319] Nov 30, 1873 Woburn, MA
mother
Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910 birth v. 216, p. 121 #5308 ] b. 8 Sep 1869 Roxbury,MA
• son of William Otis Brown & Mary Tower (Orrok) Brown
• his father was born in Woburn, MA; his mother was born in Roxbury, MA
• grandson of James A. Brown & Mary Emma (Walker) Brown and George E. Orrok & Catherine (Booklider) Orrok
• his parents married on November 16, 1899 in Medford, MA
• brother of Catherine Millicent (Brown) Hope
• husband of the late Mary R. (Blake) Brown
• father of Edwin O. Brown of California
• also survived by 2 granddaughters
• in the late nineteen teens worked as a Machinist for Worthington Pump & Machine Corp in Cambridge, MA and live at 26 Vernon St, Medford, MA with his father
• in 1940s he worked for Suburban Gas & Electric Co in Revere, MA
• WORLD WAR I veteran, served as PVT in US Army
• in his 96th year
[ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910: birth v. 497, p. 537 #214]
[MA Death Index: Certificate 053349]
[The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) 25 Nov 1996, Mon Page 24]
(Death index reports birth as 6 Aug 1900 MA, but birth record says June 6, 1900)]

Parents' birth records:
father
[Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910 birth v. 251, p. 339 #319] Nov 30, 1873 Woburn, MA
mother
Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910 birth v. 216, p. 121 #5308 ] b. 8 Sep 1869 Roxbury,MA

Inscription

"BROWN: P. Orrok 1900-1996, Mary R. 1901-1986", "Percival O. Brown, PVT US Army, World War I, Aug 6 1900 - Nov 22 1996"


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