Submitted by: Dan Rich

Elmer H. Brown
July 21, 1916 - Nov. 26, 2002

South Bend Tribune 12/1/2002

Elmer H. Brown, 86, of Kensington Ave., South Bend, died at 2:10 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 26 in the Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center, South Bend. He was born on July 21, 1916, to the late Harrison and Jessie Brown.

In February 1939 in Lakeville, Ind., he married Hazel Bennett who preceded him in death on November 13, 1980. 'On Sept. 17, 1983, in Jones, Mich., he married Bonnie Lambert who survives. Mr. Brown is also survived by a daughter, Sharon (Jack) Wagner of South Bend; four stepdaughters, Darlene (Walter) Pinkowski of South Bend, Pat (Lawrence) Simon of Dowagiac, Mich., Cheryl (Johnnie) Beavo of South Bend and Kim (Christopher) Gambee of South Bend; a son, Delbert (Martha) Brown of Fort Worth, Texas; two stepsons, James Lambert of New Carlisle, Ind., and Michael (Becky) Lambert of South Bend; twenty eight grandchildren, Albert Palmer, Jr., Robert, Raymond, Michelle and Allie Palmer, Toni Talbert, Joyce Kouts, Robert, Howard, Dale, Jimmy, Michael, Lisa and David Lambert, Glenda Wells, Walter, Amanda and Paul Pinkowski, Bonnie Peacock, Marti Burke, Angie and Laurie Simon, Gerri Sly, Kellie Smith, Jason Beavo, Christopher and Nicholas Gambee and Violet Mark; thirty-nine great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild; two sisters, Edith Thorton of Bremen, Ind., and Ruby Van Gorton of Orville, Calif.; and a brother, Ernest Brown of Mishawaka.

Mr. Brown retired in 1981 from the O'Brien Paint Company. He was a member of the Keller Park Missionary Church, South Bend, where he was an honorary deacon and was a former Sunday school teacher.

Services for Mr. Brown will be at 1 p.m. Monday, Dec. 2, in the Welsheimer Funeral Home North, 17033 Cleveland Road, South Bend. Rev. Karl Yoder and Brian Beall will conduct the services.

Friends may call from 2 to 6 p.m. today in the funeral home. Burial will be in the Highland Cemetery, South Bend.