OBITUARY - The Baytown (TX) Sun, Tuesday, 1 Oct 1968
Bert Brown, 92, of 5707 Bayway Drive, died at 8:30 p.m. Monday in a Baytown hospital.
Brown was a native of Soldier, Iowa, and came here 75 years ago.
He is survived by three sons, Francis R. Brown of Houston, Howard Brown and Norman E. Brown, both of Baytown; one daughter, Mrs. V. E. Collins of Baytown. Three grandchildren and one great-grandchild also survive.
Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Paul U Lee chapel with Rev. Monte Brown officiating. Burial will be at Cedar Crest Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Malcolm Brown, R. B. Isenhour, Frank Kelly, Lawrence Cros, Bert Manuel and Clyde Wooster.∼Siblings: Federick (Fred) Elmer Brown, Judd Brown, Jessie Margaret Brown, Twin Sister, Bertha Brown, Sarah Edith Brown, Walter Brown, Bernice Brown. Children: Francis Rue Brown, Howard Goodrichrown, Alice Inez Brown, Norman Elbert Brown.∼From: Baytown Historical Preservation Association story of the Bert Brown House (http://baytownhistory.org/newestaddition.html)
Bert Brown was 17 when he moved to Wooster, Texas in 1894 with his father, mother, and seven siblings from the Soldier Township in Iowa. Junius Brown, Bert's father, purchased the southeast half of the James Strange Labor, lying between the Nathaniel Lynch League on the west and the William Scott League on the east. This land was part of an original 1824 Mexican Land Grant to James Strange.
Several years after moving to Wooster, Bert met and married Orra Isenhour whose family came from Minnesota in 1897 and purchased the Bayland Orphanage Home and its 300 acres on Black Duck Bay. Bert built his home in 1898 on the bluff overlooking Scott's Bay where he and Orra raised their four children: Francis, Howard, Alice, and Norman. Bert was a rice farmer and one of the builders and board members of Wooster School. Bert's sister-in-law, Doris Isenhour Peterson, was one of the early teachers at Wooster School.
Mr. Brown was also one of the first board members of the Goose Creek School District. In 1919, when Goose Creek School District was formed, they wanted to include the one-room Wooster Schoolhouse. In exchange for the school, they agreed that one of the board members of Wooster School would serve on the board of the newly formed school district and Bert Brown was selected.
Mr. Brown's daughter, Alice, became a beloved schoolteacher who taught for over 37 years with the last 30 years being at David G. Burnet Elementary, which was located across Bayway Drive a little ways down from this house and also the house she and her husband Virgil Collins had built right down from her childhood home. Alice Brown Collins spent most of her life in one way or the other at Wooster School. As a child she was a student and as an adult she taught at Burnet Elementary who utilized Wooster School for a classroom, cafeteria, and music room.
Mr. Brown lived in his house until his death in 1968. After his death, the house was sold and moved to Arbor Street and had several owners and renovations.
Richard Duda who was the last owner of the house was selling his property to ExxonMobil. To keep this historical home from being demolished, Mr. Duda donated it to BHPA.
Bert Brown, 92, of 5707 Bayway Drive, died at 8:30 p.m. Monday in a Baytown hospital.
Brown was a native of Soldier, Iowa, and came here 75 years ago.
He is survived by three sons, Francis R. Brown of Houston, Howard Brown and Norman E. Brown, both of Baytown; one daughter, Mrs. V. E. Collins of Baytown. Three grandchildren and one great-grandchild also survive.
Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Paul U Lee chapel with Rev. Monte Brown officiating. Burial will be at Cedar Crest Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Malcolm Brown, R. B. Isenhour, Frank Kelly, Lawrence Cros, Bert Manuel and Clyde Wooster.∼Siblings: Federick (Fred) Elmer Brown, Judd Brown, Jessie Margaret Brown, Twin Sister, Bertha Brown, Sarah Edith Brown, Walter Brown, Bernice Brown. Children: Francis Rue Brown, Howard Goodrichrown, Alice Inez Brown, Norman Elbert Brown.∼From: Baytown Historical Preservation Association story of the Bert Brown House (http://baytownhistory.org/newestaddition.html)
Bert Brown was 17 when he moved to Wooster, Texas in 1894 with his father, mother, and seven siblings from the Soldier Township in Iowa. Junius Brown, Bert's father, purchased the southeast half of the James Strange Labor, lying between the Nathaniel Lynch League on the west and the William Scott League on the east. This land was part of an original 1824 Mexican Land Grant to James Strange.
Several years after moving to Wooster, Bert met and married Orra Isenhour whose family came from Minnesota in 1897 and purchased the Bayland Orphanage Home and its 300 acres on Black Duck Bay. Bert built his home in 1898 on the bluff overlooking Scott's Bay where he and Orra raised their four children: Francis, Howard, Alice, and Norman. Bert was a rice farmer and one of the builders and board members of Wooster School. Bert's sister-in-law, Doris Isenhour Peterson, was one of the early teachers at Wooster School.
Mr. Brown was also one of the first board members of the Goose Creek School District. In 1919, when Goose Creek School District was formed, they wanted to include the one-room Wooster Schoolhouse. In exchange for the school, they agreed that one of the board members of Wooster School would serve on the board of the newly formed school district and Bert Brown was selected.
Mr. Brown's daughter, Alice, became a beloved schoolteacher who taught for over 37 years with the last 30 years being at David G. Burnet Elementary, which was located across Bayway Drive a little ways down from this house and also the house she and her husband Virgil Collins had built right down from her childhood home. Alice Brown Collins spent most of her life in one way or the other at Wooster School. As a child she was a student and as an adult she taught at Burnet Elementary who utilized Wooster School for a classroom, cafeteria, and music room.
Mr. Brown lived in his house until his death in 1968. After his death, the house was sold and moved to Arbor Street and had several owners and renovations.
Richard Duda who was the last owner of the house was selling his property to ExxonMobil. To keep this historical home from being demolished, Mr. Duda donated it to BHPA.
OBITUARY - The Baytown (TX) Sun, Tuesday, 1 Oct 1968
Bert Brown, 92, of 5707 Bayway Drive, died at 8:30 p.m. Monday in a Baytown hospital.
Brown was a native of Soldier, Iowa, and came here 75 years ago.
He is survived by three sons, Francis R. Brown of Houston, Howard Brown and Norman E. Brown, both of Baytown; one daughter, Mrs. V. E. Collins of Baytown. Three grandchildren and one great-grandchild also survive.
Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Paul U Lee chapel with Rev. Monte Brown officiating. Burial will be at Cedar Crest Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Malcolm Brown, R. B. Isenhour, Frank Kelly, Lawrence Cros, Bert Manuel and Clyde Wooster.∼Siblings: Federick (Fred) Elmer Brown, Judd Brown, Jessie Margaret Brown, Twin Sister, Bertha Brown, Sarah Edith Brown, Walter Brown, Bernice Brown. Children: Francis Rue Brown, Howard Goodrichrown, Alice Inez Brown, Norman Elbert Brown.∼From: Baytown Historical Preservation Association story of the Bert Brown House (http://baytownhistory.org/newestaddition.html)
Bert Brown was 17 when he moved to Wooster, Texas in 1894 with his father, mother, and seven siblings from the Soldier Township in Iowa. Junius Brown, Bert's father, purchased the southeast half of the James Strange Labor, lying between the Nathaniel Lynch League on the west and the William Scott League on the east. This land was part of an original 1824 Mexican Land Grant to James Strange.
Several years after moving to Wooster, Bert met and married Orra Isenhour whose family came from Minnesota in 1897 and purchased the Bayland Orphanage Home and its 300 acres on Black Duck Bay. Bert built his home in 1898 on the bluff overlooking Scott's Bay where he and Orra raised their four children: Francis, Howard, Alice, and Norman. Bert was a rice farmer and one of the builders and board members of Wooster School. Bert's sister-in-law, Doris Isenhour Peterson, was one of the early teachers at Wooster School.
Mr. Brown was also one of the first board members of the Goose Creek School District. In 1919, when Goose Creek School District was formed, they wanted to include the one-room Wooster Schoolhouse. In exchange for the school, they agreed that one of the board members of Wooster School would serve on the board of the newly formed school district and Bert Brown was selected.
Mr. Brown's daughter, Alice, became a beloved schoolteacher who taught for over 37 years with the last 30 years being at David G. Burnet Elementary, which was located across Bayway Drive a little ways down from this house and also the house she and her husband Virgil Collins had built right down from her childhood home. Alice Brown Collins spent most of her life in one way or the other at Wooster School. As a child she was a student and as an adult she taught at Burnet Elementary who utilized Wooster School for a classroom, cafeteria, and music room.
Mr. Brown lived in his house until his death in 1968. After his death, the house was sold and moved to Arbor Street and had several owners and renovations.
Richard Duda who was the last owner of the house was selling his property to ExxonMobil. To keep this historical home from being demolished, Mr. Duda donated it to BHPA.
Bert Brown, 92, of 5707 Bayway Drive, died at 8:30 p.m. Monday in a Baytown hospital.
Brown was a native of Soldier, Iowa, and came here 75 years ago.
He is survived by three sons, Francis R. Brown of Houston, Howard Brown and Norman E. Brown, both of Baytown; one daughter, Mrs. V. E. Collins of Baytown. Three grandchildren and one great-grandchild also survive.
Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Paul U Lee chapel with Rev. Monte Brown officiating. Burial will be at Cedar Crest Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Malcolm Brown, R. B. Isenhour, Frank Kelly, Lawrence Cros, Bert Manuel and Clyde Wooster.∼Siblings: Federick (Fred) Elmer Brown, Judd Brown, Jessie Margaret Brown, Twin Sister, Bertha Brown, Sarah Edith Brown, Walter Brown, Bernice Brown. Children: Francis Rue Brown, Howard Goodrichrown, Alice Inez Brown, Norman Elbert Brown.∼From: Baytown Historical Preservation Association story of the Bert Brown House (http://baytownhistory.org/newestaddition.html)
Bert Brown was 17 when he moved to Wooster, Texas in 1894 with his father, mother, and seven siblings from the Soldier Township in Iowa. Junius Brown, Bert's father, purchased the southeast half of the James Strange Labor, lying between the Nathaniel Lynch League on the west and the William Scott League on the east. This land was part of an original 1824 Mexican Land Grant to James Strange.
Several years after moving to Wooster, Bert met and married Orra Isenhour whose family came from Minnesota in 1897 and purchased the Bayland Orphanage Home and its 300 acres on Black Duck Bay. Bert built his home in 1898 on the bluff overlooking Scott's Bay where he and Orra raised their four children: Francis, Howard, Alice, and Norman. Bert was a rice farmer and one of the builders and board members of Wooster School. Bert's sister-in-law, Doris Isenhour Peterson, was one of the early teachers at Wooster School.
Mr. Brown was also one of the first board members of the Goose Creek School District. In 1919, when Goose Creek School District was formed, they wanted to include the one-room Wooster Schoolhouse. In exchange for the school, they agreed that one of the board members of Wooster School would serve on the board of the newly formed school district and Bert Brown was selected.
Mr. Brown's daughter, Alice, became a beloved schoolteacher who taught for over 37 years with the last 30 years being at David G. Burnet Elementary, which was located across Bayway Drive a little ways down from this house and also the house she and her husband Virgil Collins had built right down from her childhood home. Alice Brown Collins spent most of her life in one way or the other at Wooster School. As a child she was a student and as an adult she taught at Burnet Elementary who utilized Wooster School for a classroom, cafeteria, and music room.
Mr. Brown lived in his house until his death in 1968. After his death, the house was sold and moved to Arbor Street and had several owners and renovations.
Richard Duda who was the last owner of the house was selling his property to ExxonMobil. To keep this historical home from being demolished, Mr. Duda donated it to BHPA.
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