Mervin M. Brown 1904-1985

Mervin M. Brown, age 80, of Roby, Missouri, was born September 9, 1904 in Bloodland, Missouri, a son of Franklin Belle Brown and Mary Alice (Hullett) Brown. He passed away February 22, 1985 at the Texas County Memorial Hospital in Houston, Missouri.

As a young man he was a school teacher at Cookville, Missouri and later at Butler Brothers in St. Louis, Missouri. He was a veteran of World War II.

On August 21, 1943 he married Charlotte Frances Massler of St. Louis, Missouri. In 1949 they moved to Roby where he farmed and worked at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. He retired in 1970.

He is survived by his wife, Charlotte; three sisters, Mildred Pitts, Golda Shaffer, and Sylvia Maxon, all of Roby, Missouri; three brothers, Earnest Brown of Roby, Eugene Brown of Kansas City, Missouri, and Dale Brown of Smithville, Missouri; and many other relatives and friends.

Funeral services were held on Sunday, February 24, 1985 at 2:00 p.m. in the Waynesville Memorial Chapel with Rev. Gene Barnett officiating.

Burial was in the Waynesville Memorial Park Cemetery under direction of Waynesville Memorial Chapel.

Music was furnished by organist Marjorie Link.

Pallbearers were Farris Delcour, Jim Hildebrand, Dewey Smith, Ott Mace, Andy (Chub) Johnson, and Ervin Earp.