Roanoke Times
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DATE: SUNDAY, March 28, 1993 TAG: 9303290272
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: E-2 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: ROCKY MOUNT LENGTH: Short
OBIT BROWN, GROVER FRANKLIN
BROWN, Grover Franklin, 81, of Rocky Mount and Eldercare of Franklin
County, died Saturday morning, March 27, 1993. He was born February 7, 1912,
in Franklin County, the son of the late Ed and Livie Brown. He was a member of
the Mt. Ivy Christian Church and married for sixty-one years to the former
Nannie Pasley. He was preceded in death by one son and three daughters, Harold
Arnett Brown, Elene Elizabeth Brown and Janice Lee Brown and Shelby Jean Witt.
Surviving in addition to his wife of Eldercare of Franklin County are two
daughters and sons-in-law, Christine B. and Sherman A. Cable Sr. of Salem,
Va., Evelyn B. and Hanel W. Bowles of Rocky Mount; one son and two
daughters-in-law, Glenwood (Brownie) and Anges O. Brown of Moneta, Christine
McGuire Brown of Hardy; and one son-in-law, Billy L. Witt of Bedford. Also
surviving are three sisters, Lena B. Perdue of Glade Hill, Zula B. Robertson
of Vinton, Va. and Hattie B. Merriman of Martinsville; nine grandchildren and
eight great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted 4 p.m. Monday,
March 29, 1993, from the Mt. Ivy Christian Church by J. D. Hunt III, Minister
and Steven Pasley, Associate Minister, with interment to follow in the Pasley
Family Cemetery. Visitation will begin Sunday at 3 p.m. at Lynch Funeral Home
where the family will be from 7 till 9 p.m.
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