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Extracted from The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal (Jena, LA)
Wednesday, March 25, 1998

BROWN, Gemes Ivy

Gemes Ivy Brown, 64, of Kirbyville, Texas, died March 16, 1998, at his residence.

A lifelong resident of Jena, he was a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War.

Services were at 11 a.m. March 18, at E.E. Stringer Funeral Home in Kirbyville with burial at Bean Cemetery in Kirbyville.

Survivors include his wife, Bessie Brown; three sons, James Ray Brown, Carl Lee Brown, both of Jasper, Texas and John R. Brown of Oakdale; step-children, Billy John Pippins of Colmesneil, Charles Wayne Green of Texarkana, Texas, Elizabeth Kaye Wilhite of Texarkana, Lilac Jean Richardson of Jasper and Karen Gimeloote of Winnsboro; one brother, Frank Enterkin, Jr. of Winnfield and 16 grandchildren.