Max Brown, 93, founder of the KRVN radio station in Lexington, died Dec. 14, 2004, in Lexington.
He was born Aug. 31, 1911, to Willet J. and Birdie M. Erickson Brown in Brookings, S.D. He graduated from Huron (S.D.) High School in 1930. He received his bachelor's degree from South Dakota State College in 1934 and a master's degree in agricultural economics in 1936. He taught at SDSC from 1936 to 1941.
On Aug. 30, 1940, he married Vera Mae Johnson of St. Paul, Minn. She preceded him in death in 1979.
Having received a Reserve Officer Training Corp commission in the U.S. Army during college, he joined the Army as an officer in the Quartermaster Corps in 1941. He was assigned to the Army Air Corps, rising to the rank of major. After World War II, he taught briefly at SDSC.
In 1945, he was appointed the first executive director of the Nebraska Cooperative Council. Work with the council and other farm organizations led Mr. Brown and other agricultural leaders to eventually build a farmer- and rancher-owned radio station. The Nebraska Rural Radio Association was established in 1948, followed by the construction of KRVN's facilities in Lexington. The station went on the air on Feb. 1, 1951.
He served as secretary-treasurer of the NRRA and was general manager of KRVN from its founding until his retirement in 1979. The association's rural radio network subsequently grew to six stations: KRVN AM/FM in Lexington, KNEB AM/FM in Scottsbluff, and KTIC AM and KWPN FM in West Point. More than 4,200 Nebraska farm and ranch families own the association. He described his motivation for the project in a book "The First Fifty Years of Service to Agriculture."
After retirement, he remained active with many organizations supporting agriculture, including Agricultural Builders of Nebraska, for which he was a driving force, and he worked for more veterinary science education opportunities for Nebraska students.
In 1981, he married his sixth-grade classmate, Muriel Humphrey, the widow of the former vice president and U.S. senator, Hubert H. Humphrey. Mr. Brown and the former Muriel Buck had attended elementary and high school together in Huron. They were married from 1981 until her death in 1998.
Mr. Brown received many honors for his service to Nebraska and its agriculture, including the Nebraska Hall of Agricultural Achievement, Nebraska Broadcasters Hall of Fame, and the Pioneer Broadcaster Award.
In lieu of flowers, contributions are suggested to the Lexington Foundation designated for the KRVN Foundation or the First Methodist Church in Lexington.
Contributor: drbusybody (47859386)
He was born Aug. 31, 1911, to Willet J. and Birdie M. Erickson Brown in Brookings, S.D. He graduated from Huron (S.D.) High School in 1930. He received his bachelor's degree from South Dakota State College in 1934 and a master's degree in agricultural economics in 1936. He taught at SDSC from 1936 to 1941.
On Aug. 30, 1940, he married Vera Mae Johnson of St. Paul, Minn. She preceded him in death in 1979.
Having received a Reserve Officer Training Corp commission in the U.S. Army during college, he joined the Army as an officer in the Quartermaster Corps in 1941. He was assigned to the Army Air Corps, rising to the rank of major. After World War II, he taught briefly at SDSC.
In 1945, he was appointed the first executive director of the Nebraska Cooperative Council. Work with the council and other farm organizations led Mr. Brown and other agricultural leaders to eventually build a farmer- and rancher-owned radio station. The Nebraska Rural Radio Association was established in 1948, followed by the construction of KRVN's facilities in Lexington. The station went on the air on Feb. 1, 1951.
He served as secretary-treasurer of the NRRA and was general manager of KRVN from its founding until his retirement in 1979. The association's rural radio network subsequently grew to six stations: KRVN AM/FM in Lexington, KNEB AM/FM in Scottsbluff, and KTIC AM and KWPN FM in West Point. More than 4,200 Nebraska farm and ranch families own the association. He described his motivation for the project in a book "The First Fifty Years of Service to Agriculture."
After retirement, he remained active with many organizations supporting agriculture, including Agricultural Builders of Nebraska, for which he was a driving force, and he worked for more veterinary science education opportunities for Nebraska students.
In 1981, he married his sixth-grade classmate, Muriel Humphrey, the widow of the former vice president and U.S. senator, Hubert H. Humphrey. Mr. Brown and the former Muriel Buck had attended elementary and high school together in Huron. They were married from 1981 until her death in 1998.
Mr. Brown received many honors for his service to Nebraska and its agriculture, including the Nebraska Hall of Agricultural Achievement, Nebraska Broadcasters Hall of Fame, and the Pioneer Broadcaster Award.
In lieu of flowers, contributions are suggested to the Lexington Foundation designated for the KRVN Foundation or the First Methodist Church in Lexington.
Contributor: drbusybody (47859386)
Max Brown, 93, founder of the KRVN radio station in Lexington, died Dec. 14, 2004, in Lexington.
He was born Aug. 31, 1911, to Willet J. and Birdie M. Erickson Brown in Brookings, S.D. He graduated from Huron (S.D.) High School in 1930. He received his bachelor's degree from South Dakota State College in 1934 and a master's degree in agricultural economics in 1936. He taught at SDSC from 1936 to 1941.
On Aug. 30, 1940, he married Vera Mae Johnson of St. Paul, Minn. She preceded him in death in 1979.
Having received a Reserve Officer Training Corp commission in the U.S. Army during college, he joined the Army as an officer in the Quartermaster Corps in 1941. He was assigned to the Army Air Corps, rising to the rank of major. After World War II, he taught briefly at SDSC.
In 1945, he was appointed the first executive director of the Nebraska Cooperative Council. Work with the council and other farm organizations led Mr. Brown and other agricultural leaders to eventually build a farmer- and rancher-owned radio station. The Nebraska Rural Radio Association was established in 1948, followed by the construction of KRVN's facilities in Lexington. The station went on the air on Feb. 1, 1951.
He served as secretary-treasurer of the NRRA and was general manager of KRVN from its founding until his retirement in 1979. The association's rural radio network subsequently grew to six stations: KRVN AM/FM in Lexington, KNEB AM/FM in Scottsbluff, and KTIC AM and KWPN FM in West Point. More than 4,200 Nebraska farm and ranch families own the association. He described his motivation for the project in a book "The First Fifty Years of Service to Agriculture."
After retirement, he remained active with many organizations supporting agriculture, including Agricultural Builders of Nebraska, for which he was a driving force, and he worked for more veterinary science education opportunities for Nebraska students.
In 1981, he married his sixth-grade classmate, Muriel Humphrey, the widow of the former vice president and U.S. senator, Hubert H. Humphrey. Mr. Brown and the former Muriel Buck had attended elementary and high school together in Huron. They were married from 1981 until her death in 1998.
Mr. Brown received many honors for his service to Nebraska and its agriculture, including the Nebraska Hall of Agricultural Achievement, Nebraska Broadcasters Hall of Fame, and the Pioneer Broadcaster Award.
In lieu of flowers, contributions are suggested to the Lexington Foundation designated for the KRVN Foundation or the First Methodist Church in Lexington.
Contributor: drbusybody (47859386)
He was born Aug. 31, 1911, to Willet J. and Birdie M. Erickson Brown in Brookings, S.D. He graduated from Huron (S.D.) High School in 1930. He received his bachelor's degree from South Dakota State College in 1934 and a master's degree in agricultural economics in 1936. He taught at SDSC from 1936 to 1941.
On Aug. 30, 1940, he married Vera Mae Johnson of St. Paul, Minn. She preceded him in death in 1979.
Having received a Reserve Officer Training Corp commission in the U.S. Army during college, he joined the Army as an officer in the Quartermaster Corps in 1941. He was assigned to the Army Air Corps, rising to the rank of major. After World War II, he taught briefly at SDSC.
In 1945, he was appointed the first executive director of the Nebraska Cooperative Council. Work with the council and other farm organizations led Mr. Brown and other agricultural leaders to eventually build a farmer- and rancher-owned radio station. The Nebraska Rural Radio Association was established in 1948, followed by the construction of KRVN's facilities in Lexington. The station went on the air on Feb. 1, 1951.
He served as secretary-treasurer of the NRRA and was general manager of KRVN from its founding until his retirement in 1979. The association's rural radio network subsequently grew to six stations: KRVN AM/FM in Lexington, KNEB AM/FM in Scottsbluff, and KTIC AM and KWPN FM in West Point. More than 4,200 Nebraska farm and ranch families own the association. He described his motivation for the project in a book "The First Fifty Years of Service to Agriculture."
After retirement, he remained active with many organizations supporting agriculture, including Agricultural Builders of Nebraska, for which he was a driving force, and he worked for more veterinary science education opportunities for Nebraska students.
In 1981, he married his sixth-grade classmate, Muriel Humphrey, the widow of the former vice president and U.S. senator, Hubert H. Humphrey. Mr. Brown and the former Muriel Buck had attended elementary and high school together in Huron. They were married from 1981 until her death in 1998.
Mr. Brown received many honors for his service to Nebraska and its agriculture, including the Nebraska Hall of Agricultural Achievement, Nebraska Broadcasters Hall of Fame, and the Pioneer Broadcaster Award.
In lieu of flowers, contributions are suggested to the Lexington Foundation designated for the KRVN Foundation or the First Methodist Church in Lexington.
Contributor: drbusybody (47859386)
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