James Adam Brown © Enid News and Eagle 01-2002 Submitted by: Jo Aguirre
Medford – a graveside service for James Adam "Jim" Brown, 87, will be 2 PM Tuesday in Rosemound Cemetery. The Rev. Bobby Smith will officiate. Arrangements are by Hills – Ely Funeral Home.
He was born September 5, 1914, in Rolla, Missouri, to Lacy Adam and Susie Bell Bradley Brown and died Saturday, January 26, 2002 in Sumner County Hospital District No. 1 in Caldwell, Kansas.
He attended school in the Rolla area. On April 23, 1943, he married Marie Fetrow. He hauled gasoline for Menefee Truck Company out of Mountain Grove, Missouri. He worked for Missouri Road Construction, building freeways across the state in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and drove for Roadway. The couple later moved to Joplin, Missouri. He drove a city bus and a taxicab until 1976, then ran a small engine repair shop from his home. They moved to Cherokee in 1981, then to Deer Creek before moving to Medford in 1995.
Surviving are his wife, Marie of the home; one son, Gerald of Alva; four daughters, Tonia Farren of Silsbee, Texas, Corine Boman of Pawnee Rock, Kansas, Patsy Sue Beck of Clearwater, Kansas, and Ella Ridgway of Enid; one sister, Pearl Nola of Columbia, Missouri; 13 grandchildren; and 11 great – grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by one son and two brothers.
Memorials may be made through the funeral home to the First Baptist Church of Medford.
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