Sunday Times Sentinel (Gallipolis-Pomeroy, OH) - July 30, 2006
Ivan Elwood Brown, 77, of Lucasville, died Friday, July 28, 2006, at Pleasant Hill Manor in Piketon.
He was born April 8, 1929, in Scioto County, son of the late Charles R. and Alice (Allen) Brown.
He was an instrument maintenance foreman for the Goodyear Atomic Energy Plant in Piketon from 1953 until 1984. He was a self-employed locksmith, attended Minford High School in the class of 1947 and was a member of the Minford United Methodist Church in Minford, where he served as co-director for the Hopewell House.
He was a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War, a member of the James Irwin Post No. 622 of the American Legion, where he served as post commander and treasurer, and served on the Minford Local Board of Education in the 1960s.
He is survived by three sons, Jack (Gwen) Langdon of Circleville, Joseph (Terry) Brown of Lucasville, and John Brown of Lucasville; two daughters, Sandra Langdon Hardesty of Rio Grande, and Ruth Ellen (Neal) Skiles of Heath; a brother, Lloyd (Freda) Brown of Portsmouth; a sister, Elta Gay (Bob) Amos of Grove City; and 12 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his first wife, Betty J. (Wiseman) Brown, on Jan. 20, 2004, whom he married on Aug. 15, 1954; two sons, Rex Lee Brown in 1978, and James Michael Langdon in 1994; a daughter-in-law, Barbara Kay Brown in 2004; three brothers, Charles A. Brown, George O. Brown and Floyd W. Brown; and four sisters, Averill Brown, Yvonne Jackson, Althea Brown and one in infancy.
Services will be 2 p.m. Monday, July 31, 2006, at the Minford United Methodist Church with Pastor Tim Bennett officiating. Burial will follow in the Brown Family Cemetery. Friends may call at the Erwin-Dodson-Allen Funeral Home in Minford from 2-6 p.m. today and at the church Monday, one hour prior to the service.
Military graveside rites will be conducted by the James Irwin Post No. 622 of the American Legion.
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