Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Forest Clinton Brown ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
Forest Clinton Brown
LAST NAME: Brown FIRST NAME: Forest MIDDLE NAME: Clinton NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
TITLE:  GENDER: M MILITARY: Korean War - Army
BORN: 18 Apr 1932 DIED: 11 Sep 1963 BURIED: 16 Sep 1963
ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Saw Mill worker
BIRTH PLACE:  Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
DEATH PLACE: Dallas, Polk Co., Oregon
NOTES: 

Name of father Forest Clinton Brown
Maiden name of mother Nancy Aldine McClennan.
1940 OR CENSUS - Forrest Brown Jr., age 7, b. Oregon is enumerated with F. C. Brown, age 49, occupation trucker, b. Kentucky, and Nancy, age 47, b. Kentucky, along with Helen, age 13, b. Oregon.

1950 OR CENSUS Forrest Brown (17y, b Oregon) enumerated with sister Lucille McIntyre (33y, b Oregon), her husband George McIntyre (38y, b Oregon, logging operator), her son Jackie Douglas (15y, b Oregon) and Dixie McIntyre (b July 1949, Oregon)

MARRIAGE Forest Clinton Brown Jr (of Valsetz, Oregon, mill work, single, b 18 Apr 1933, Salem, Oregon, son of Forest C. Brown & Nancy A. McClellen) and Gloria Maudette Risteen (of Valsetz, Oregon, b 15 Feb 1934, Salem, Oregon, dau of Herman A. Hudson & Ella V. Kneland) md 23 Mar 1963, Newport, Lincoln co, Oregon

 

OBITUARY: 

Forest Brown, Jr.
VALSETZ - Forest Clinton Brown, Jr., 31, lifelong Salem resident until moving to Valsetz in the past year, died Wednesday night in an ambulance en route to a Dallas hospital.
Polk County sheriff's office reported death was caused by an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound. An autopsy is planned Friday.
He was born at Salem. He worked at the Boise-Cascade Plywood plant here. He was married at Salem last year.
Survivors include the widow, Gloria, Valsetz; daughter Kelly, and three stepson's, Robert, Larry and Rodney, all at home; two brothers, Wendell and Glenn Brown, both Salem; four sisters, Mrs. Lucile McIntyre, Newport, Mrs. Esther Wright, San Bernardino, Calif., Mrs. Helen Mulligan, Gardena, Calif., and Mrs. Jeannette Mann, Salem.
Services will be 2 p.m. Monday at Howell-Edwards Funeral Home with interment at Pioneer Cemetery in Salem.
Oregon Statesman 13 Sep 1963

INSCRIPTION: 

Forest C. Brown, Jr.
Oregon
CPL US Army
Korea
April 18, 1932 - Sept 11, 1963

SOURCES: 

LR
OSBH DC (Polk County 1963) #13267
1940 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Salem, ED 26, sheet 13A)

1950 OR CENSUS (Lincoln Co, Little Elk, ED 21-14, sheet 2-3)

Oregon Marriage Records (Ancestry.com)
OS 13 Sep 1963

CONTACTS: 
Wayne Douglas, 2510 Dalke Ridge Dr. NW, Salem, OR 97304
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