Extracted from The Shreveport Times (Shreveport, LA)
Thursday, September 14, 1967

J. W. Brown Dies at 56

J. W. Brown, 56, of Shreveport, an engineer with the Louisiana Department of Highways, died at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Schumpert Hospital after an illness of 8 weeks.

Mr. Brown lived at 2214 Sioux Trail. He was recently awarded a pin in honor of 25 years of service with the highway department.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete and are under direction of Rose-Neath Funeral Home.

Survivors include his widow; two stepsons, Donald Diffey of Houston, Tex., and L. E. Diffey of Shreveport; two brothers, Clyde Brown of New Orleans, and Perkins Brown of Oakland, Calif., three sisters, Miss Clara Brown and Mrs. D. L. McDonald; both of Shreveport, and Mrs. Edgar deLesseps of Arlington, Va.