Durward Edward ""Dee"" Brown

Funeral service for Durward Edward "Dee� Brown, Jr. of Jonesville Louisiana, former businessman and community leader died Wednesday Nov 14th after a lengthy illness at his home Mayo Plantation, surrounded by his family will be as follows. Funeral will be held Friday November, 16, 2007 at the Trinity Presbyterian Church in Jonesville, La with Rev's Melodie Long and Clyde Ray Webber officiating. Interment will follow in Heard Cemetery in Manifest, La. under the Direction of Young's Funeral Home, Jonesville. Mr. Brown was a life long resident and businessman of Jonesville, Louisiana and Catahoula Parish and a member of the Trinity Presbyterian Church. In past years Mr. Brown held various civic and leadership positions including: President , Jonesville Jaycees; President, Louisiana Seedmans Association; President, Louisiana Soybean Festival; Chairman of the Catahoula Parish Hospital Board; Past member of the Louisiana Cattlemen's Association; and Deacon in the Trinity Presbyterian Church. Mr. Brown worked in the family business known as Brown Brothers for over 40 years starting as a child delivering groceries for Brown Brothers Wholesale Grocery in 1945. Brown Brothers operated retail stores in Jonesville, Harrisonburg, Jena, and Olla quickly becoming a household name. In 1956, after graduating from Mississippi State University in Seed Technology and Agriculture, Mr. Brown joined the family business. He came to be known as one of the most knowledgeable agricultural persons in Catahoula and Concordia parishes. In1958, the Browns opened the first grain elevator in the area and the growing of soybeans was introduced as a profitable crop. In 1966 Brown Brothers opened the fertilizer mixing plant servicing farmers in many parishes. Brown Brothers grew to be one of the largest Garden Centers in the area offering feed, seed, hardware, garden supplies, fertilizer, and custom seed cleaning. In 1997, Mr. Brown began to work as an independent cotton consultant and later for the Louisiana Department of Agriculture with the Cotton Bowevil Eradication Program. Mr. Brown served his country with eight years in the Army Reserve. Mr. Brown was preceded in death by his parents Durward E. Brown, Sr. and Alpha Webb Brown. Survivors include: his wife Mickie Nasif Brown, four sons: Durward (Eddie) Brown, III, of Jacksonville, FL, William (Bill) Brown of Jonesville, LA, Michael (Mike) Brown of Chicago, IL, Zane Nasif Brown of Birmingham, AL, and one daughter: Brittain Marie Brown of Baton Rouge, LA, seven grandchildren, two great grandchildren, one brother-in-law: George Nasif of Natchez, MS, and one niece and nephew. Pallbearers will be Buddy Davis, Randy Boughton, Cleve Womack, J.S. Fairbanks, Jason Tiser, and Mike Venable. Honorary pallbearers will be Fred Parish, Bill Avery, H.C. White, A.L. "Petie� Moore, LeRoy Paul, Jimmie Jones, Leo Boothe, Charlie Venable, Morris Wilson & Al Boughton The family will receive friends at Young's Funeral Home, Jonesville Thursday November 15, 2007 from 5:00 to 8:00 PM. To leave an online condolence please visit www.youngsfh.com

Durward Edward ""Dee"" Brown

October 23, 1934 - November 14, 2007