 1926 - 2009 (82 years)
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| Name |
James Ernest Brown [1, 2] |
| Birth |
8 Oct 1926 |
Mulberry, Polk, Florida, USA  [1, 2] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Residence |
1930 |
Mulberry, Polk, Florida, USA [2] |
| Death |
8 May 2009 |
Jacksonville, Duval, Florida, USA [1] |
- James Ernest Brown, 82, went home to be with the Lord on Friday, May 8, 2009.
He was born on October 8, 1926 in Mulberry, FL. to Claude Lorain Brown Jr. and Stella Evelyn Greene.
He was a veteran & served in the U.S. Army during World War II.
Ernest retired from the Jacksonville Fire Department as a Captain in 1972. He then went on to serve the Panama City Beach Fire Department as Fire Chief until 1981.
He was of the Baptist faith and a member of Duval Station Baptist Church.
Ernest is survived by his faithful wife of 50 years, Dorothy McCoy Brown; his son, Stephen J. Brown (Connie); his daughter, Valerie Brown Sawyer (Joshua); grandchildren, Matt, Tonya, Kelly, Robbie and Jamie; several great-grandchildren, other extended family and dear friends.
Ernest will be remembered for his love of God, his family, the Bible, Gator football and playing his guitar.
Funeral services will be held on Monday May 11 at 1:00 PM in the chapel of Cedar Bay Funeral Home, 405 New Berlin Road, Jacksonville, 714-1110, with Brother Steve McCoy officiating. Interment will follow in Ferreira cemetery.
The family will receive friends on Sunday (Today) from 4-6 PM.
"I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith."
Published in the Florida Times-Union from May 9 to May 10, 2009.
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| Burial |
Ferreira Cemetery, Jacksonville, Duval, Florida, USA [1] |
| Person ID |
I4934 |
tng Genealogy |
| Father |
Claude Lorain Brown, b. 11 Feb 1897, Hamilton, Florida, USA d. 6 Dec 1932, Columbia, Florida, USA (Age 35 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
Stella Evelyn Greene, b. 17 Aug 1903, Lake City, Columbia, Florida, USA d. 19 Jan 1990, Jacksonville, Duval, Florida, USA (Age 86 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Marriage |
16 Oct 1921 |
| Family ID |
F1955 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 2 |
Dorothy Jean McCoy, b. 13 Dec 1937, Vidalia, Toombs, Georgia, USA d. 7 Dec 2016, Jacksonville, Duval, Florida, USA (Age 78 years) |
| Marriage |
1 Aug 1959 |
| Children |
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| Family ID |
F1967 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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 | Birth - 8 Oct 1926 - Mulberry, Polk, Florida, USA |
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| Residence - 1930 - Mulberry, Polk, Florida, USA |
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 | Death - 8 May 2009 - Jacksonville, Duval, Florida, USA |
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| Sources |
- [S541] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;), https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/110425719.
Record for Chief James Ernest Brown
https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=60525&h=63647392&indiv=try
https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=60525&h=63647392&indiv=try
- [S337] Ancestry.com, 1930 United States Federal Census, (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2002;).
Year: 1930; Census Place: Mulberry, Polk, Florida; Roll 330; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 43; Image: 1077.0.
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1930usfedcen&h=103481976&indiv=try
[ View Federal Census Document]
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1930usfedcen&h=103481976&indiv=try
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