Elmwood Cemetery

Norman Brown, 88 year old Ft. Supply resident, passed away Tuesday, March 1, 2022 in Woodward. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Monday, March 7, 2022 in the Billings Funeral Home Chapel with Reverend Donnetta Hunter officiating. Burial will follow in the Elmwood Cemetery. Visitation will be at the funeral home on Sunday, March 6, 2022 from 9:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m.

Norman Lee Brown was born on June 19, 1933 in Gage, Oklahoma to John and Edna (Popewell) Brown. Norman grew up north of Gage, Oklahoma and attended and graduated from Gage High School. He traveled all over the western half of the United States, working in every state west of the Mississippi except two; Utah and Idaho. Sometimes they would just hitchhike to a new place and start over working on farms, ranches, wheat harvest, etc. learning numerous trades. He would usually end up in whichever state his big brother Elmer moved to, mostly Kansas, Colorado, and California. He worked for Boeing two different times working on Bomber airplanes. He also worked for Coleman, making lanterns, stoves, etc. He was really a jack of all trades.

In 1961, Norman returned to Oklahoma and went to work for Western State Hospital in Fort Supply working in the plumbing department. This is when he met the love of his life, Patsy Levings from Buffalo, Oklahoma. One day, he was working on a bathtub on the ward where Pat was a nurse. When they left the ward, he told his dear friend, Bill Lane, who was working with him “I’m going to marry that woman someday.” Which he did in 1964. They made their home in Fort Supply, Oklahoma and from this union, his only son Doug was born. He also loved and adopted Pat’s daughter, Tammi. He usually worked at 2 or 3 jobs at the same time. After Pat left nursing in 1970, they ran a tavern in Fort Supply for several years. Norm loved to hunt and fish. He also loved camping, fishing, and boating with his wife Pat, until she passed away too young at 50 years old in 1993. He enjoyed boating and fishing the rest of his life. He enjoyed pulling his son, grandsons, and their friends on waterskis and tubes. He enjoyed tinkering and working on old boats with his son and grandson, rebuilding his last boat at age 87. Norm always loved to drive his pickups, traveling everywhere but especially around Fort Supply Lake and the countryside in Northwest Oklahoma. He also loved woodworking, building things on the lathe he built himself. He made baseball bats, bowls, rolling pins, etc. Norman lived a long, full, and active life.

He is survived by one son, Doug Brown and girlfriend Ave Giovinco; one daughter, Tammi Brown Waddle and husband Mike; five grandchildren: Josh Waddle, Summer Coffman, Naomi Stevens, Sarah Hutcheson, and Stephen Brown; other relatives and friends.

Norman was preceded in death by his father, John Brown, mother, Edna Brown, brother Elmer Brown and his wife Pat Brown.

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