This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg//YlB.2ACI/2009 Message Board Post: Margaret Fay Brown Longtime Hugo, OK, resident Margaret Fay Brown, 81, of Duncan, OK, died Monday, May 2, 2005, in Country Club Care Nursing Home. Graveside service was held at 2 p.m. Friday, May 6, in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Hugo. Carter-Smart Funeral Home of Duncan was in charge of arrangements. Fay was born Nov. 27, 1923, in Hugo, to Rufus Newton Parks and Maudie Frances Hulen. She was the granddaughter of Thomas Allen Hulen and Lucy Ann Mathilda Wallace, who lived near Detroit, Texas, and John Wesley Parks and Martha Ophelia Johnson, who lived in Blossom, Texas. She graduated from Hugo High School in 1941. She married R. Jay Brown, son of William Cowan Brown and Nora Myrtle Sparks, on June 30, 1945, in Hugo. He was ordained as a Baptist minister in 1956 at First Baptist Church, Hugo, and became pastor of Oak Grove Baptist, east of Hugo. She accompanied him to pastorates in Muskogee and Warner, OK, before returning to Hugo in 1963. After serving Southside Baptist Church in Hugo, the Rev. Brown accepted the pastorate of Central Baptist Church near Marlow, OK, in 1965. He died June 22, 1979. Mrs. Brown moved to Duncan in 1980, and to Lawton, OK, in 1981. She returned to Duncan in 1992. For the past four years, she had been a resident of a Duncan nursing home. She was a member of First Baptist Church. Survivors include a son, John W. Brown, and his wife, LaDonna, of Duncan; a daughter, Jayne Boykin of Duncan; three grandchildren: Jonna Brown of Duncan, Evan Sean Brown of Austin, Texas, and Lara LeAnne Tipton and her husband, Jack, of Lawton; and a great-grandchild, Reid Tipton of Lawton. She was preceded in death by her parents; three brothers: her twin, Johnnye Ray Parks, Boney Lewis Parks and Thomas Newton “Bud” Parks; two sisters: Mary Belle Parks Smith and Hattie Lou Parks Fry; and an infant grandson, Ryan Scott Brown.