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Paul Brown, Norma Brown & Christine Williams

From Ruth Walsh

Marietta Monitor, Friday, January 11, 1985
PAUL BROWN SERVICES ARE HELD HERE
   Services for Howard Paul Brown of Gainesville were conducted Thursday at
2:00 p.m. in the Chapel of the Anderson Funeral Home with the Rev James
Braswell as the officiating minister.
Born July 6, 1909 in Gainesville, Mr. Brown died January 7 in Gainesville.
He was the son of the late Tom and Ethyl Brown and nephews.
Mr. Brown was retired from Union Texas Petroleum, a division of Allied
Chemical Company, and was transferred by the company to Gainesville in 1952 from Abilene, Texas. He was married to Norma Hooper of Marietta and she preceded him in death on July 28, 1975. Mr. Brown was of the Baptist faith.
   He is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Mae Segroves of Torrance, Calif. and
Mrs. Christine Williams of Whitewright, Texas, and several nieces and
nephews.
   Interment was in the Lakeview Cemetery with the Anderson Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Serving as casket bearers were Bennie Milburn,
Charlie Enderby, Jr., Hutchins Dale Scivally, D. James Cole, and M..rell
Harrison.
   (Howard Paul Brown was the son of Thomas T. Brown and Mary Ethel
Robinson. He was the grandson of Major Lee Robinson, a CSA Vet, and Temperance Isabella Elizabeth Blanton. His g-grandparents were Fannin Co., TX pioneers Josiah Blanton and Lucy Westbrook. It should be noted that Mrs. Mae Brown Segroves was the full sister of Paul Brown and
Christine Brown Williams was a half-sister to Paul Brown. Howard Paul
Brown's parent's and three three half-sisters predeceased him.)

Marietta Monitor, Friday, August 2, 1985
SERVICES FOR NORMA BROWN HELD THURSDAY
   Services for Mrs. Normal Hooper Brown were conducted Thursday at 4 p.m.
at the Tabernacle baptist Church, east of Gainesville with the Rev. James L.
Braswell of Gainesville officiating. He was assisted by the Rev. Herbert
Price. Mrs. Bown died Monday in the Gainesville Memorial Hospital following an illness of several months.
   She was born Dec. 4, 193 at Thackerville and was married to Paul Brown in
1937 at her home southwest of Marietta. Mrs. Brown had been a school
teacher ande had worked with the Welfare Department of Oklahoma. She had
also been an employee of the Southern Aircraft Company at Garland, Texas and the bomber Bait Company at Gainesville.
   She had been retired for the past three years.
   Mr. and Mrs. Brown had lived in Gainesville since 1952 and were members
of the Tabernacle Bapist Church. She will be missed by her many friends.
   She is survived by her husband, Paul Brown of 1629 Roy Street,
Gainesville; her mother, Mrs. Myrtle Splawn of Gainesville ;one brother, Abb
Hooper of Belleville, Illinois; and one niece, Mrs. Pat Wadhams of
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
   Interment in Lakeview Cemetery was under the direction of the Goodrich
Funeral Home.
   (Normal Hooper Brown was the daughter-in-law of Thomas T. Brown and Mary Ethel Robinson. Her husband, Howard Paul Brown was the grandson of
Major Lee Robinson, a CSA Vet, and Temperance Isabella
Elizabeth Blanton. His g-grandparents were Fannin Co., TX pioneers Josiah
Blanton and Lucy Westbrook.)

Denison Herald, March 23, 1986
CHRISTINE WILLIAMS
   WHITEWRIGHT - Services for Mrs. Christine Williams of Whitewright,
85-year-old retired Whitewright Independent School District lunch room
employee who died Friday at a Sherman nursing home, were held Sunday at
Earnheart Funeral Chapel
   The Rev. Glenn Loy of the First United Methodist Church officiating and
burial was in Oak Hill Cemetery.
   Mrs. Williams was born in Wichita Falls, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Brown and married Fletcher C. Williams on May 11, 1921 in Sherman.
   She was a longtime area resident and a member of the First United
Methodist Church of Whitewright.
   Surviving are her son, Dr. F.M. Williams of Corpus Christi; (half)
sister, Mrs. Mae Segraves of Los Angeles; three grandchildren and seven
great-grandchildren.
   Pallbearers were Joe Hennig, Glen Hicks, J.A. Hopper, Elbert Bennett, Loy
Turner and Sam Montgomery.
   Memorials may be made to the First United Methodist Church or Whitewright Ambulance Service Thumper Fund.
   (Christine Brown Williams mother was Lucilla Johnson Brown. After
Lucilla's death (ca 1920), Christine's father married Mary Ethel Robinson in
1921. Ethel raised Tom's younger children by Lucilla, loving them as though
they were her own natural born children. Ethel considered all of Tom's
children to be her children. She never differentiated between them and her
own children. All of Tom's daughters by Lucilla were loved by Ethel
Robinson Brown's siblings and treated as members of the Robinson family.)

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