This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Brown, Branson, Collar,Keeney, Dittman, Scego, Butler Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kdF.2ACIB/428 Message Board Post: Howard William Brown of Belle died January 30, 1992 at Charles E. Still Hospital in Jefferson City. He was 63 years of age. Mr. Brown was born December 14, 1928, a son of William Robert and Beulah Collar Brown. He married Nadine Branson on June 14, 1947, she survives of the home. Other survivors include five daughters, Maxine Brown and Marlene Dittman of Bland; Pam Keeney and her husband Bob of Cuba; Pat Scego and her husband Dennis of Owensville and Michelle Butler and her husband Dale of Belle; a son, Morris Brown and his wife Karen of Bland; a foster-daughter, Chris Branson and her husband Richard; a brother, Earl Brown of Bland; two sisters, Harriett VanDusen of Paso Robles, California; and Della Mehrhoff of Bland; 15 grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. He was preceded in death by his parents; a sister, Thelma Dowell; and a grandson, Shawn Enloe. Mr. Brown recently retired and moved to Belle after operating a dairy farm north of Bland for 31 years. Services were held February 3, 1992 at the Sassmann's Chapel in Belle with interment in the Mt. Zion Cemetery. source: Unterrified Democrat, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 1992