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Richard Rush Brown

4 Dec 1946 – 6 Oct 2022

Birth	4 Dec 1946
Death	6 Oct 2022
Cemetery	Davis Cemetery Henderson , Rusk County , Texas , USA
Added by	KD Burleson on 01 Nov 2022
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/244325363

Bio

Richard Rush Brown, 75, of Henderson was born December 4, 1946, in Garland, Texas to A. D. Brown Jr. and Virgie Wynkoop Brown. He owned and operated Brown's Communications in Henderson and was a resident of Rusk County for almost 50 years. He loved trains and enjoyed seeing the old steam locomotives and collecting model train sets of all kinds. He was a big part of Rusk County and helped get radio communications throughout the East Texas area. He enjoyed HAM Radio, especially being known by his call sign, K5RRB. Mr. Brown helped start the Sidewalk Sale in Dallas where people could buy two-way radio equipment for many years. He loved to bring people together through the HAM Radio programs that he would do for various organizations. He loved and served his Lord and was a member of The First Baptist Church of Henderson for forty years, where he was a deacon and drove the church bus to pick up the elderly. He was preceded in death by his parents, daughter Jana LaRee Brown Kirkner, twin sons Kevin Brown and Kenneth Brown, and the mother of his children Bessie Ruth Land.

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Parents

• Virgie Anna Wynkoop Brown 1924–2014
• Admiral Dewey "A.D." Brown Jr 1926–2016

Children

• Kevin Charles Brown 1978–1978
• Kenneth Ray Brown 1978–1978

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