Wallace Andrew Brown 1902-1977

BROWN, DITSWORTH, WILLIAMS, HEWITT, PENNINGTON, VAVRA, WHALEY, WRATTEN

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 9/5/2011 at 23:03:39

Gruver – Wallace Brown, 75, rural Gruver, died of a heart attack at his home Wednesday afternoon. Services for Mr. Brown are pending at Fuhrman Funeral Home, Estherville. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, May 12, 1977)

Estherville – Services for Wallace Andrew Brown, 75, Gruver will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 14, at the Fuhrman Funeral Home, Estherville, with the Rev. Neal Armstrong, Gruver Presbyterian Church, officiating.

Interment will be in East Side Cemetery, Estherville.

Mr. Brown died Wednesday, May 11, 1977, at his farm home following a coronary.

The son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Brown, he was born Feb. 24, 1902, near Gruver. He received his education in Center Township schools and, on July 21, 1927, was married to Zelma Ditsworth at Jackson, Minn.

Mr. Brown farmed south of Gruver, on the farm where he was born, his entire life. He also served as a member of the Gruver School’s Board of Education.

He is survived by his wife, Zelma; three sons, LeRoy Brown, Des Moines, David Brown, Spencer, and Ronald Brown, Gruver; two daughters, Mrs. Rosemarie Williams, Hermantown, Minn., and Mrs. Kathleen Hewitt, Fridley, Minn.; nine grandchildren; one great grandchild; one brother, Chester Brown, Estherville; and four sisters, Mrs. Iva Pennington, Plainfield, Ill., Mrs. Carol Vavra, Chicago, Ill., Mrs. Mildred Whaley, Chicago, Ill., and Mrs. Marjorie Wratten, Estherville.

Mr. Brown was preceded in death by one son, Russell Brown, his parents, a half-brother and two sisters.

Friends May call at Fuhrman Funeral Home until time of services Saturday. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, May 13, 1977)