Arthur Willis Brown and Beatrice Helen Risser

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Arthur Willis Brown and Beatrice Helen Risser

Arthur Willis Brown, the son of John Theodore Brown and Emilie Marie "Emma" Benter, was born on Thursday, 19 July 1888 in Kokomo, Indiana. He died at the age of 78 on Saturday, 1 July 1967 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The cause of death was heart failure. He was buried in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Arthur Willis Brown (aged 26) married Beatrice Helen Risser (aged 22) on Wednesday, 18 November 1914.

Beatrice Helen Risser, the daughter of Louis F. Risser and Mary Tangeman, was born on Wednesday, 7 September 1892 in Talmage, Otoe County, Nebraska. She died at the age of 86 in July 1979 in a nursing home, Bountiful, Utah. The cause of death was heart failure. She was buried in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Their children are:

Robert Louis Brown, born on Tuesday, 30 May 1922 in Denver, Denver County, Colorado, baptized in about 1958 in a Presbyterian church near Loveland, Ohio. He married Phyllis Lavelle Barnes on Sunday, 2 May 1948 in Denver, Denver County, Colorado.
Floyd Leslie Brown, born on Wednesday, 13 April 1921 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He married Gayle Mullis on Sunday, 24 September 1944 in Broomfield, New Jersey (locale uncertain).
Arthur William Brown, born on Sunday, 1 July 1928 in Denver, Colorado, died due to Heart attack in September 1989. He married a woman named Barbara in September 1952 in Boulder, Colorado.

Floyd Brown and Gayle Mulles were married in September 1944, and have three children:

Pamela Brown, born in 1948.
Cynthia "Cindy" Brown, born in 1950.
Richard, born in 1953.

Arthur "Art" Brown was born on about 6 July 1928. He married a woman named Barbara in September 1952. They have 4 children:

Christine Brown
Katrina Brown
Derek Brown
Robin Brown

Research Notes:

Bea died just before 7 July 1979 (according to the airline tickets). Paula thinks August 1978.

AWB graduated from the Colorado School of Mines in 1913. (Check their records?)

According to RLB (July '88):

AWB was born 6 or 8 July 1888 in Kokomo, Indiana. (Selma said he died on his birthday, and that was 17 July, so we had listed 17 July 1888.) (And more recently, 1 July 1888 which agrees with the birth of a baby boy Brown in Kokomo. This boy is not Arthur Brown, unfortunately.) The current date comes from his own memory as recorded in a letter to Robert and Phyllis Brown.