Thomas Barkstel Brown^[1]

1921 - 1997  (75 years)

• Name	Thomas Barkstel Brown
  Born	18 Dec 1921	Oliver Springs, Tennessee
  Gender	Male
  Died	18 Nov 1997	St. Mary's Medical Center, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee   [2]
  Buried	20 Nov 1997	Sunset Cemetery, Clinton, Anderson County, Tennessee
  Person ID	I288169	Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest
  Last Modified	9 Sep 2013

  
  

  Father	Lawrence N. Brown,   d. Bef 17 Oct 2010
  Mother	Addie Braden,   d. Bef 17 Oct 2010
  Family ID	F58376	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Verlia Marie Rhea,   b. Abt 1922, Tennessee ,   d. Bef 9 Feb 2011  (Age ~ 89 years)
  Children	1. James Barkstel Brown,   b. 10 Jul 1951,   d. 7 Dec 1952  (Age 1 years)   2. Jane Brown + 3. Darryl Thomas Brown,   b. 7 Sep 1958, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee ,   d. 9 Feb 2011, Murfreesboro, Tennessee  (Age 52 years)
  Family ID	F115235	Group Sheet

  
  

• Event Map		Buried - 20 Nov 1997 - Sunset Cemetery, Clinton, Anderson County, Tennessee  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources

  [S4] Knoxville News-Sentinel (Tennessee), 19 Oct 2010. Jennie Maxine Brown Harvey obituary [S142] Newspaper Article, The Oak Ridger (TN), 19 Nov 1997. Thomas Barkstel Brown , 75, of 407 Douglas Lane, Clinton, died Tuesday, Nov. 18, 1997, at St. Mary's Medical Center in Knoxville. Mr. Brown was retired from the National Cash Register Company of Knoxville where he had worked as a service engineer for 42 years. He was born in Oliver Springs on Dec. 18, 1921, the son of Lawrence N. and Addie Braden Brown . He was a U.S. Army Air Corps veteran and served as a technical sergeant with the 8th Air Force, 758th Bombers Group in the European Theater during World War II. Mr. Brown was an active member of First Baptist Church of Clinton and served as a deacon and Sunday school department head. He was an avid fisherman and enjoyed gardening, the family said. Mr. Brown is survived by his wife, Marie Rhea Brown ; a daughter, Jane Greenwalt and her husband, Peter, of Dayton, Ohio; a son, Darryl Brown and his wife, Sharon, of Lenoir City; and four grandchildren, Katherine Marie Stokes and her husband, Nolan, of Arlington, Va., William Dale Harman and his wife, Debbie, of Knoxville, and Hewitt "Hugh" Brown and Ethan T. Brown , both of Lenoir City. He is also survived by a sister, Maxine B. Harvey and her husband, C.S. Jr., of Oliver Springs; two brothers, Thaxton H. Brown and his wife, Pauline, and Lawrence N. Brown Jr. and his wife, Dorothy, all of Oliver Springs; a brother-in-law, Paul Rhea and his wife, Pearl; and by several nieces and nephews. Another son, James Barkstel Brown , three sisters, Mattie B. Patterson, Loulla Mae Brown and Margaret Ann Speake, and a brother, Roger Brown , are deceased. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, at First Baptist Church of Clinton with the Rev. Sam Dean officiating. Burial will follow at Sunset Cemetery in Clinton. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 tonight, Nov. 19, at Holley-Gamble Funeral Home in Clinton. The family requests any memorials be in the form of donations to First Baptist Church, P.O. Box 268, Clinton, TN 37717.