Former Montpelier Resident Dies

Charles Raymond Brown, 59, former Montpelier resident, died September 18 at his home in Ogden. He was born December 8, 1896 at New Castle, Wyoming, the son of George E. and Mary Anna Happy Brown. Mr. Brown and Margaret Evangeline Cox were married December 24, 1921 at Lead, South Dakota.

Mr. Brown was a miner at the Homestake Mine at Lead, where he and his family resided the greater part of their lives. They were in Kansas City, Missouri for five years, where Mr. Brown was employed as a lineman for the Kansas City Power company. The family moved to Bear Lake county in 1942 when the Wyodak Coal company, a subsidiary of Homestake Mining company, did exploratory work for vanadium at Raymond.

He was a veteran of World War I and for the past three and one-half years was a patient and under care of the Veterans’ Hospital in Salt Lake City.

Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Olean (Marian Louise) Parker of Montpelier, and Mrs. Bud (Dorothy Virginia) Lloyd of Alton. He was preceded in death by his wife on May 10, 1950, and a son, Franklin Brown, killed in action in World War II on May 4, 1944 in France.

Services were held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Matthews Mortuary Chapel with Bishop Leland Muir conducting. The opening song, “In the Garden,” was by Mrs. Reed Lowe with Mrs. Lester Armatage accompanying; invocation, Bishop Byron E. Mumford, speaker, Bishop Alvin Tueller, vocal solo, “The Old Rugged Cross,” Max Haddock, speaker, Bishop Clyde Wilde, song, “Going Home,” ladies’ trio comprised of Mrs. Dean Larsen, Mrs. Eugene Wilcox and Mrs. Lowe, benediction, Earl Hayes.

Interment was in the Montpelier cemetery and the grave was dedicated by Olean Parker.

Pall bearers were David Jensen, Sherman Burgoyne, Eliot Casperson, Doyle Lloyd, David Roderick and Roy Kunz.

Published in The News-Examiner in Montpelier, Bear Lake County, Idaho, on Thursday, September 27, 1956, on page 1