CLAUDE ELLIS BROWN

Funeral service for Claude Ellis Brown of Marshfield was held Aug. 31 in Marshfield. Arthur's Colonial Chapel was in charge of arrangements.

Brown, 88, formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Thursday, Aug. 29, 1991, at his home.

He was born Aug. 19, 1903, near Jonesboro, Ill., son of James Alphus and Sarah Elizabeth Gunter Brown.

He lived in Cape Girardeau from 1922 until the mid-1940s. He worked at International Shoe Co. and Sunny Hill Dairy. During that time he was a member of First Baptist Church, where he was a deacon and taught Sunday school.

In the early 1940s, he married Florence E. Williams of Bloomfield.

Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Sharon Van Matre of Springfield; three sisters, Flora Robinson of Black, Shirley Rees of Bradenton, Fla., Francis Rathert of Fenton; three brothers, Lloyd Brown of Louisville, Ky., J. Owen Brown of Cape Girardeau, Herbert Brown of Springfield, and two grandsons.

Four sisters and two brothers preceded him in death.