Norman J. "Pete" Brown 1925 - 1999

BROWN, BECKLER, WOODCOCK

Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 11/1/2014 at 21:37:59

Sioux City Journal
7 January 1999

Norman J. "Pete" Brown, 73, of Sioux City died Monday, Jan. 4, 1999, at his residence following a lengthy illness.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Friday at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, with the Rev. Leo Kostizen officiating. Burial will be in Graceland Park Cemetery. Visitation will be noon to 9 p.m., with the family present 6 to 8 p.m., at Nelson-Berger Northside Chapel.

Mr. Brown was born April 28, 1925, in Hawarden, Iowa, the son of Homer and Ruth (Woodcock) Brown. He attended Alcester, S.D. schools, graduating from Alcester High School. He moved to Sioux City when he was 18 years old.

He married Darlene Beckler on July 10, 1945, in Sioux City. He was employed with National Food Stores, Council Oaks Stores, Piggly Wiggly and Food for Less Grocery Stores. He worked in the produce department, was a meat cutter and store manager until retiring in 1989.

He was a member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, where he served as an usher and on the school's board of education. He enjoyed fishing and woodworking.

Survivors include his wife; a son and his wife, Thomas and Gail of Sioux City; two daughters, Sandra Andersen and Sharon and her husband, Jerry Taylor, all of Sioux City; two brothers and their wives, Edward and Thelma and William and Margaret, all of Alton, Mo.; two sisters, Alice Bair of Judith Gap, Mont., and Lou and her husband, Kenneth Gould, of Alton, Mo.; and six grandchildren, Michael and Barry Andersen, Steven, Wendy and Roger Brown and Steven Hemmingstad.

He was preceded in death by a son, Dennis; and a sister, Shirley Clark.

Memorials in his name may be directed to St. Paul's Lutheran Church or Hospice of Siouxland.