BROWN, John G.

BROWN, CURTIS, SCHULTE, TANNER, SOMMERS, STOCKTON, SCOTT

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 9/2/2016 at 02:21:13

Obituary ~ John G. Brown
January 26, 1932 ~ January 09, 2000

The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
January 11, 2000

MISSION, Texas - John G. Brown, 67, of Mission, Texas, formerly of Mason City, died Sunday (Jan. 9, 2000) at the Mission Hospital in Mission.

Graveside services will be held at 3 p.m. Friday at Elmwood-St. Joseph Cemetery in Mason City with the Rev. David Anderson of St. James Lutheran Church officiating. Full military rites will be conducted by members of the Mason City Veterans Memorial Association.

There will be no visitation. Major Erickson Funeral Home, 209 Second St. N.E., is in charge of arrangements. In lieu of flowers memorials may be directed to Betty Brown, 1525 Riverbend Drive, Mission, Texas 78572.

John G. Brown was born Jan. 26, 1932, in Mason City, the son of John G. and Vera (Curtis) Brown. He attended Mason City High School and in 1949 enlisted in the U.S. Navy, where he served in the Korean War, Vietnam War and was stationed in Japan. After 20 years of service he was discharged.

In 1978 he married Betty Schulte (Tanner) in Manly. In 1980, he moved to Topeka, Kans., and was employed at St. Francis Hospital as a security guard. Retiring in 1987 to become "winter Texans," the Browns moved to Mission fulltime in 1996. He was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church in Mission, a lifetime member of Veterans of Foreign War Post 733 in Mason City and a member of the Fleet Reserve Association.

Survivors include his wife, Betty Brown of Mission; two sons, Fred Brown and his wife, Bonnie, of Coralville, and Steve Brown and his wife, Terry, of Irvine, Calif.; a daughter, Linda Sommers and husband, Wayne, of Riverton, Utah; two stepdaughters, Pam Stockton and husband, Bill, of Louisville, Ky., and Lori Scott and husband, Jeff, of Victoria, Texas; one stepson, David Schulte and wife, Cheryl, of La Crescent, Minn.; 14 grandchildren; one great granddaughter; as well as a host of friends and neighbors. He will be sadly missed by all.

He was preceded in death by his parents and one brother, E. Warren Brown.

Major Erickson Funeral Home & Crematory, (515) 424-0924.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, August of 2016