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Jess Brown (1944)

BROWN, REED, TOBLESON, WEEKS

Posted By: Ida Morse
Date: 1/24/2008 at 18:22:47

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, August 2, 1944

JESS BROWN DIES

Jess Brown, Madison county resident for the past six and one-half years, died at the Iowa Methodist hospital in Des Moines, Monday, July 24th, at the age of 54 years. Mr. Brown had been ill for the past two years.

He was a son of Niels Otto and Anna Marie Brown, and was born in Shelby county, Iowa, October 25, 1889. He was a member of the Lutheran Evangelical church.

On March 8, 1917, he was united in marriage at Council Bluffs, Iowa to Johanna Tobleson of Atlantic.

They were the parents of five children, who with the wife survive him; Mrs. Gerald Weeks of Peru, Mrs. Harry Reed of Atlantic and Glee, Jess and Mark at home. He also leaves two grandchildren.

Funeral service were conducted by the Rev. Francis B. Harris, pastor of the Peru Methodist church at the Kale funeral home in Truro, Wednesday, July 26th, and burial was made in the Ebenezer cemetery.

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