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- Austin Brown, 72, Taken By Death
Summersville. June 17 (RNS) – Austin Brown, 72, of Summersville died at his home this afternoon after a long illness.
He was a son of the late Jonathan and Elizabeth Taylor Brown, was a graduate of Mountain State Business College, taught school in Nicholas County for 10 years. A lifelong resident of Summersville, he was cashier of the Camden On Gauley Bank and of the Nicholas County Bank.
Brown had served as auditor for the State Tax Commission for 12 years and was office deputy in the Nicholas Sheriff’s office for 11 years. He retired a year ago from the Sheriff’s office due to ill health.
He was a member of Memorial Methodist Church at Summersville.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Wiseman Brown; three daughters, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Knowles of Albuquerque, N.M., Mrs. Ione Hoffman of East Gary, Ind., Mrs. Sue Brooks of St. Albans, and a son, John A. with the Navy; one sister, Mrs. Allie Williams of Dunbar; and one brother, Edwin of Summersville; and five grandchildren.
The body is at Waters Funeral Home at Summersville. Arrangements are incomplete.
Beckley Post-Herald, Beckley, West Virginia. Wednesday, 18 June 1958.
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