r New Boston for many years and a volunteer for many services throughout the community. He loved people, life, his family, the Chicago Cubs, country music, and playing cribbage with his lifetime friend Oscar. Survivors include his wife, Lou; four daughters, Lottie Fuller and her husband, Bruce, of Eliza, Ill., Linda Perkins, Nancy Meincke and her husband, Larry, and Roxann Nelson, all of New Boston; two sons, Earl Brown Jr. and his wife, Jeri, of New Boston and Michael Brown of Dorchester, Mass.; two sisters, Stella Yates of Keithsburg, Ill., and Molly Juhl of New Boston; a foster son, Robert James of Keithsburg; 13 grandchildren; and 20 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, seven brothers, two sisters, and a grandson.
Ralph J Wittich-Riley-Freers Funeral Home
Muscatine, IA 52761
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