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==Brown family==
Then a USAF captain, as per his [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/120235385 obit], Brownie Brown and Marcia Youle were married at the First UMC in Hutch in 1945, officiated by Joe Riley Burns, presumably pastor there at the time. Marcia had two sisters, Mrs. Paul D. Brown & Mrs. R. Elton Parsons. Brownie's brother-in-law, Lt. R. Elton Parsons of Charleston, S.C. served as best man. Marcia studied at Southwestern college, earning her B.A. in 1945 and served as a secretary to the registrar at SW. Brownie graduated from Altamonte high school, and from officers candidate school at Miami Beach, FL in 1942, and studied meteorology at the University of Utah. During WWII, he was a weather forecaster for a B-29 unit, and in 1945 accepted a job as a meteorologist for the TWA in Chicago. His maternal grandfather, Peter James Van Pelt (b. 1847 Matawan, [[New Jersey|NJ]]) - d. 1938 Manhattan, KS), resided in Riley Co., KS since 1853, one year after Congress had begun the process of creating the Kansas Territory, and one year prior to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas%E2%80%93Nebraska_Act Kansas Nebraska Act].
* Abby "Steva" Brown '''+2006'''
** Marcia Brown Monteith '''+1960+'''
** Ronald Brown '''+1960+'''