Earl L Browning

Obituary

Athens Review
Thursday, March 19,1964
Browning Rites Here On Sunday

Funeral services were held Sunday at 4 p.m. at the Central Baptist Church for Earl L. Browning, 52 who died at his home here Friday at 12:40 p.m. after a lengthy illness.
The Rev. Bill Slayton, the Rev. Rev. T. L. Slimp and the Rev. Alton Dodd conducted the services and burial was in the Athens City Cemetery. The Hassell and Foster Funeral
Home in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Browning was born at Kilgore and moved to Athens in 1945. He was manager of Brookshire Bros. grocery for three years and afterward was assistant chief of police,
chief of police, and street superintendent for the city of Athens, and a deputy sheriff of Henderson County. He was a member of the Central Baptist Church.
He was married to the former Miss Lucille Boy of Kaufman Aug., 10, 1935.
Survivors are his wife; one son, Bobby Browning of Fort Worth; three sisters, Mrs. Mary Hill and Mrs. Alma Friendly of Kaufman and Mrs. Sara Kilpatrick of Overton, and two grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Kenneth Bledsoe, Ira Kinsey, Willie Cecil, B. L. Staples, Don Dickerson and Titus Chaney.
Note: Cemetery Records of Henderson County, Texas Book 1 For The AGO Shows Earl Leslie Browning born June 9, 1911 died Mar 13 1964. Death record shows the same. Cemetery Book Volume 11 in 1977 shows born May 7 1942 died June 2 1960 this is incorrect. (LGR)

Athens City Cemetery

Many From Out Of Town Attend Browning Rites

Athens Weekly Review
March 19, 1964
Many From Out Of Town Attend Browning Rite

Among those from out of town who attended funeral services Sunday afternoon at the Central Baptist Church for Earl L. Browning were the following:
Mr. and Mrs. D. O. Newby, Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Newby, Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Newby, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Duke, Ida Carroll, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Richardson,
Mr. and Mrs. Garland Dunn, Mr. and Mrs. Wyrick, Curtis Smith, Mrs. Stanley Hulme, Dallas; Mr. and Mrs. Brady Mills, Mrs. Roland Lambert, Mineola; Mr. and Mrs.
B. L. Staples, Mr. and Mrs. Bernie Beam, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Jarvis Crossley, Tyler; Mr. and Mrs. Harold Kilpatrick and Karen, Eustace.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Duckett, Mrs. Jake Walser, Mr. and Mrs. Billy Hollowell, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Burford, Mr. and Mrs. Chas Palmore, Mrs. Sue Knight, Frank Knowles,
Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Lee, Larry Sifford, Charles Hickman, Fort worth; Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Beck, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Sweat, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Friendley,
Mrs. Alma Friedley, Mrs. Mary Hill, Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Lane, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Craven, Mrs. Nora McDonald, Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Boy, J. D. Newby, Mr. and Mrs.
C. M. Coatney, Mrs. Lena K. Reed, Kaufman, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Watson, Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Watson, Canton; Mr. and Mrs. George Spencer, Arp; Mr. and Mrs.
Howard Dorris, Mr. and Mrs. Dale Beckmon, Mrs. Sarah Kilpatrick, Overton; Mr. and Mrs. Ray Goodson, Longview; Mrs. Mary Griffith, Palestine; Mr. and Mrs.
Clint Boles, LaRue; Rev. and Mrs. T. L. Slimp, Coleman; Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Boy, Waco; Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Boy, Cleburne; Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. McElroy, Stephenville;
Mrs. Faye Browning, Abilene; Jimmy Ray Kilpatrick, Cincinnati, Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Whitson, Texarkana, Ark.; Mrs. C. E. Hunter, Miss Tena Carroll, Garland;
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lawrence, Kilgore; Mr. and Mrs. Howard Sweat and family, Winnsboro.

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