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DATE: MONDAY, October 18, 1993                   TAG: 9310180213
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: PULASKI                                 LENGTH: Medium

OBIT BROWN, RUBY CLARK

BROWN, Ruby Clark, 61, wife of prominent Pulaski County dairy farmer, Frank W. Brown of Rt. 1, Robinson Tract Road (Buena Vista Farms), Pulaski, died Saturday night, October 16, 1993 in the Pulaski Community Hospital. She was born in Bassett, Va. on January 29, 1932 and was the daughter of the late George Arnold Clark and Bessie Mize Clark Ross. She was a member of the Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church, Pulaski, where she served in various offices in the church, and was a member of the United Methodist Women and served as treasurer for several years. She was a volunteer 4-H leader, member of the Robinson Tract Homemakers Club, served on the F.H.A.C. committee for Southern States Corporation, member of the Robinson Tract Community Club and helped with the New River Valley Fair Beauty Pageant. She was preceded in death by three brothers, Coolidge, Thurman and Larry Clark. She is survived by her husband, Frank W. Brown, Pulaski; one son and daughter-in-law, Robert W. and Karen Buckland Brown, Pulaski; one daughter and son-in-law, Margaret and Skip Stevens, Pulaski; two sisters, Mrs. Mae Berry, Ridgeway and Mrs. Charlie (Charlene) Joyce, Bassett; one brother, Phillip (Bill) Clark, Martinsville; three grandchildren, Nathan Brown, Josh Brown and Anna Stevens, all of Pulaski. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 11 a.m. from the Stevens Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Cecil Baxter and the Rev. Lonnie Fields officiating. Burial will follow in the Highland Memory Gardens, Dublin. Visitation will be Monday evening at Stevens Funeral Home, where the family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. In lieu of flowers, the family wishes memorials to be made to the Wesley Memorial U.M.C., Rt. 2, Box 40A, Dublin, Va., 24084, or the New River Valley Hospice, Inc., P.O. Box 10896, Blacksburg, Va., 24062-0896. Arrangements by Stevens Funeral Home Inc., Pulaski. 


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