Gene Brownd

EARTH - Services for Gene Brownd, 81, of Earth will be at 2 p.m. today at Earth United Methodist Church with the Revs. Bobby Broyles and Gary Hubbard officiating.
Burial will be in Earth Memorial Cemetery under the direction of Parsons-Ellis Funeral Home of Earth. 
He died Wednesday, July 11, 2001.
He was born June 11, 1920, in Comanche and married Dorthaphine Fulfer on Sept. 2, 1939, in Hale Center. He moved to Earthin 1951 from Hale Center and was a master sergeant during World War II, serving in the European Theatre and working with the 120th Evacuation Hospital.
He was a member of the Littlefield Masonic Lodge, where he was a 32nd degree Mason and received his 50-year pin in 1996. He was a Shriner, a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion in Littlefield. He was a past member of the Earth Lions Club and the Earth Chamber of Commerce. He was a farmer and a past board member of Citizens State Bank of Earth, and had owned Brownd Implement Co. in Earth
Survivors include his wife; a son, Dickie of Earth a daughter, Kathie Shirey of Earth three sisters, Hollie Cheevers of Dumas, Patsy Greenwood of Cordell, Okla., and Barbara Burnett of Cotton Center; and six grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials to Earth Memorial Cemetery, P.O. Box 523, Earth TX 79031, Earth EMS or to the Fire Department.