Fred L. Brown

Fred Brown WAPELLO, Iowa #45;- Fred L. Brown, 83, Wapello, died Thursday, May 16, 2002, at the Wapello Nursing and Rehab Center, Wapello. Services are 10 a.m. Monday at United Methodist Church, Wapello. The Revs. Harlan W. Winter and Bill Yohe will officiate. Burial will be at Wapello Cemetery with military rites conducted by the Wapello Veterans of Foreign Wars. Visitation is 7-8:30 p.m. Sunday at the Dudgeon-McCulley Funeral Home, Wapello. A memorial fund has been established for the United Methodist Church and the Wapello Volunteer Fire Department. Mr. Brown was born on May 29, 1918, in Wapello, the son of Roy and Velma Tindall Brown. He married Helen Verlee Johnson on Nov. 20, 1938, in Muscatine. She preceded him in death on Nov. 8, 1969. He later married Betty 'Godwin' Yohe on March 13, 1971, in Wapello. He was a member of the Civilian Conservation Corps and helped build the Keosauqua State Park and worked on the levy near Oakville. He lived in the Quad Cities area and worked at the Rock Island Arsenal, worked with an uncle in an appliance store and also ran a milk delivery route. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II with the 16th Armored Divisi...[more]

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and fought in the Battle of the Bulge. He was a member of the United Methodist Church; life member of the Glenn Allen VFW Post No. 5166, Wapello; long-time member of the Wapello Volunteer Fire Department; and the Wapello Cemetery Board. He helped with the ambulance service, the VFW and his church and other organizations in Wapello. He owned and operated Siline and Johnson Manufacturing, Wapello, for many years. Survivors include three sons, Larry Brown and his wife, Sandy, of Pensacola, Fl., Dennis Brown and his wife, Joan, of Freeport, Ill., and Doug Brown and his wife, Kim, of Wapello; nine grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; five stepchildren, Cindy Jenkins and her husband, Bruce, of Houston, Texas, Nancy Enlow and her husband, Richard, of St. Louis, Mo., the Rev. Bill Yohe of Chandler, Texas, Tim Yohe and his wife, Kelley, of Eldridge and Linda Bullard and her husband, Jim, of Hot Springs, Ark.; and 15 stepgrandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents; his first wife, Helen Verlee; a daughter-in-law, Nancy; a grandson, Richard Bazan; and a brother, Delbert Brown.