Brown, Claude W.

731 North Netta Street, Picher Oklahoma, died Aug 17, 1996, age 70, at 7 am, Saturday, Aug 17, 1996, at his home after a long illness. Mr Brown was born Mar 10, 1926, in Treece Kansas. He moved to Picher from Lanagan Missouri, in 1979. He had worked as a hard rock lead and zinc miner in the Picher area several years ago, and later served as chief of police for Metaline Falls, Washington. He retired in 1970 as a hoist operator for Finex and Sisson, Inc. in Joliet Illinois. He was a World War II veteran, serving in the U.S. Navy. He was member of the Picher Lion's Club, the Columbus Kansas, Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Veterans Club of Baxter Springs Kansas. He married Maxine Smith on Dec 2, 1976, in Bentonville Arkansas. She survives. Additional survivors include a daughter, Shannon McGee, Spokane Washington; two brothers, Albert Lee Brown, Henderson Kentucky, and Earnest Brown, Azle Texas; two sisters, Delma Simpson, Baxter Springs Kansas and Betty June Barrett, Wichita Kansas; a half-sister, Kaye Montgomery, Alpharetta Georgia, and two grandchildren. Services will be 2 pm Tuesday, at Derfielt's chapel in Baxter Springs, with the Rev. Bill Ritchie officiating. Burial Aug 20, 1996, will be at the Greenlawn cemetery in Kansas, northwest of Treece Kansas. Pallbearers will be Claude Brown, Charley Brown, Mike Barrett, Mark Barrett, Dwaine Brown, and Dennis Simpson. Honorary pallbearers will be Larry Mahurin, Cecil North, Butch Matthews, and Charles Dee Knight. The family will receive friends from 7 to 8 pm tonight at the Derfelt funeral Home.