NAME: ARTHUR AUS EDGAR BROWN, AGE 97, LONGTIME RESIDENT OF MADILL, OK.

BORN: MAY 19, 1904 AT MCMILLAN, INDIAN TERRITORY TO JAMES ANDREW AND ANNIE MELVINIE (COLLINS) BROWN. PASSED AWAY: THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 30, 2001 AT THE ARDMORE HOSPITAL. AGE: 97 YEARS 3 MONTHS AND 11 DAYS.

MARRIED: ANNIE LAURA GOFF ON NOVEMBER 16, 1929 AT KINGSTON, OK.

OCCUPATION: AUS WORKED AS A FARMER, TRUCK DRIVER, AND A PIPELINER FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS, AND FOR THE CITY OF MADILL AND MARSHALL COUNTY DISTRICT 2, RETIRING AT AGE 85.

CHURCH: HE WAS A MEMBER OF CHURCH OF CHRIST.

AUS WAS REARED IN LOVE COUNTY UNTIL 1924 WHEN HE MOVED AND LIVED IN MARSHAL AND JOHNSTON COUNTIES. IN 1955 HE AND HIS WIFE MOVED TO MADILL WHERE THEY LIVED THE REMAINDER OF THEIR LIVES.

HE MOWED YARDS FOR THE ELDERLY AND WIDOWED, WAS SELF-TAUGHT AND WAS A RENOWNED FIDDLER. HE WON MANY TROPHIES AND AWARDS THROUGHOUT OKLAHOMA, TEXAS, AND ARKANSAS. AUS LOVED TO FISH, DEER HUNT, AND PLAY MUSIC. HE PLAYED FOR THE LOCAL NURSING HOMES AND SENIOR CITIZEN CENTERS.

SURVIVED BY

SONS: TOMMY BROWN AND WIFE VICKIE OF MADILL, OK. EDDIE BROWN AND WIFE DEBBIE OF ATOKA, OK.

DAUGHTERS: NEVA LAFON CLARK AND HUSBAND EMIT OF MADILL, OK. MONA JO CUMBIE AND HUSBAND JACK OF RUSSETT, OK. GLYNDA JANE HERNDON AND HUSBAND FERRELL OF DURANT, OK. SUSAN KAYE PILGRIM AND HUSBAND JACKIE OF ARDMORE, OK. NANCY LOU KIRK AND HUSBAND DOUG OF PLAINVIEW, OK.

17 GRANDCHILDREN, 26 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, 3 GREAT GREAT GRANDCHILDREN.

SISTER: JO ANN GREGORY OF PAMPA, TX.

BROTHER: VERNON BROWN OF SPRING LAKE, MI.

SISTER-IN-LAW: ALINE BROWN OF ARMORE, OK.

SPECIAL PERSONS: JAYNIE GORES, LILA CARTER, AND KATHLEEN GRIDER.

PRECEDED IN DEATH BY

PARENTS: JAMES AND ANNIE BROWN. WIFE: ANNIE ON JULY 21, 1986.

DATE OF SERVICES: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2001 AT 2:00 P.M. PLACE OF SERVICES: WATTS MEMORIAL CHAPEL - MADILL, OK.

INTERMENT: OAKLAND CEMETERY ~ MADILL, OK.

OFFICIATING: FRANK PENNINGTON. MUSIC: CALLIE RUSHING, TOMMY TAYLOR, AND THE DWIGHT BIRDSONG BAND.

CASKETBEARERS: RANDY CUMBIE, JACKIE DON CUMBIE, TODD BROWN, GRANT BROWN, DENNIS CUMBIE, MITCHELL PILGRIM, TEELEIH BOND, JEREMY CUMBIE.

HONORARY CASKETBEARERS: DR. GREG MARTENS, DONALD JOE ADAMS, OTIS WILSON, ED BENTON, DWIGHT BIRDSONG, JOHN GRIDER, BRYANT WATTS, BO BURTON, DR. JOHN SILLS, JOHN H. JONES, MILFORD CLEMENT, MARCELLO CAVALLO, THOMAS PITTMAN, IVAN LOYD, NOLL PEAVLER, MARLAN BIRDSONG, AND HIS MANY MUSICIAN FRIENDS.

SERVICES UNDER THE DIRECTION OF WATTS FUNERAL HOME - MADILL, OKLAHOMA