Michael Carllee Brown
Tombstone Photo
Silent Home Cemetery
Roll, Roger Mills County, OK

Photos © Karen Harman

Michael Carllee Brown

© Cheyenne Star

Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

Michael Carllee Brown was born April 8, 1951 in Cheyenne, Oklahoma to Mary June and Wilburn Leon Brown and died Thursday, June 23, 1994 in the Methodist Medical Center of Dallas, Texas at the age of 43.

Michael graduated from Borger High School in Borger, Texas with academic honors in 1969. He continued his education further at Oral Roberts University receiving a Business Administration Degree and a Masters Degree in International Business from Thunderbird Graduate School in Phoenix, Arizona.

Ensign Michael Brown served in the United States Navy for eight years. He completed Naval Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island and Naval Supply Corps School in Athens, Georgia in 1978. Ensing Brown's first naval commission after graduation from Naval Supply Corps was aboard the U.S.S. Stribling. During Michael's stint in the Navy, he served two years at the naval base in Diego Garcia and three years in Honolulu, Hawaii where he received further training at Pearl Harbor Naval Supply Center and the Marine Corps Air Station at Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii.

Michael was an interpreter in the Ministry of the Deaf at Calvary Baptist Church, Borger, Texas during his high school and college years.

He had been employed by Southwestern Bell Telephone of Dallas, Texas for the past twelve years.

Throughout his lifetime, Michael was actively involved in music ministry wherever he was located. His secular music always brought laughter, a smile, or an upbeat feeling to those who heard him. Some of the secular activities he did in his lifetime were participating in high school musicals, one of his favorite being "Oklahoma", singing with native Hawaiians in a choral group in Honolulu, Hawaii and entertaining at various talent exhibitions.

Michael also had a Christian music ministry and was always active in the churches wherever he was located. He shared his gift of music with all those he came in contact with and those who heard his Christian gospel music always felt they had been touched by the Holy Spirit as Michael sang. He sang at funerals, weddings, church services, as well as performed with a variety of musical groups with the last two being "High Praise" and " Soaring Spirit".

Those who preceded Michael in death were his mother Mary June; his maternal grandparents, Robert Lee and Flora Mae Cole; and his paternal grandfather, Carl R. Brown.

Survivors include Michael's father, Leon Brown of Durham, Oklahoma; his grandmother, Vauda Brown of Roll, Oklahoma; Ms. Blanche of Dallas, Texas; two sisters and brothers in law, Patsy and Dr. Jere' Wells of Erie, Kansas; Debbie and Richard Tweed of Borger, Texas; John Blackmann, a close friend of the family; two nieces, Michele and her husband Dale McCurdy of Medicine Lodge, Kansas; and Mandy Blakley of Erie, Kansas; one uncle, D. L. Brown of Amarillo, Texas; and a host of other relatives and friends.

Services were at 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, June 28, 1994 in the Crawford Magnolia Baptist Church with A. L. Martin officiating assisted by Kenneth Gamble.

The music that will be used throughout the service will be a selection of favorites sung and recorded by Michael C. Brown.

Interment will follow in the Silent Home Cemetery, Roll, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma under the direction of Rose Chapel Funeral Service, Cheyenne.
 

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