NAME: Calvin Brown
AGE: 73
PLACE OF BIRTH: East Prairie, Mo.
SPOUSE, CHILDREN'S NAMES:
Wife: Barbara Brown
Children: Donna Nall, Tammy Staab, Mark Freeman
OCCUPATION: Minister
EMPLOYER:
United Methodist Church at Benton, Mo.
BUSINESSES OWNED, ALL OR PART: none
PREVIOUS OFFICES HELD OR SOUGHT:
This will be my first time in city government.
WHAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE FACING MORLEY?
Although Morley is a great place to live, and I chose it as a place to buy my home here, there is some houses that are vacant, and have become eyesores to our town. I would like for our city government to tackle this problem, and see what we could do about it. We need to bring in a store like Casey's where we could get gas and food items to our town.
WHAT IN YOUR BACKGROUND OR EDUCATION MAKES YOU QUALIFIED FOR THIS OFFICE?
I have spent many years in Southest Missouri in different retail employment, working in a factory, Brown Shoe Co., Potlatch at Sikeston and then answering a call to become a minister.
I have attended college at Hendrix College in Conway Ark. and St. Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, Mo. And I love small communitities having grown up in Wyatt, Mo.
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