Obituary - Verle E. Brown

Funeral services for Verle E. Brown, 80, will be conducted at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Church of the Nazarene in Princeton. Burial will be at the Freeze Cemetery. A covered-dish dinner will be served at the church after the service. Verle passed away Monday evening at the Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane.

Verle was born May 22, 1931, to Eldon and Marguerite (Reeve) Brown at Tiffin, Iowa. Verle attended the Potlatch schools and graduated from the Potlatch High School in 1949.

Verle joined the U.S. Army on May 13, 1953, and served in Korea. He was later discharged as a corporal April 8, 1955.

He married on June 8, 1956, at Potlatch, and the couple made their home in the Potlatch-Princeton area, where they farmed and raised Black Angus cattle. Verle also worked for Potlatch Forests Inc. as a safety personnel director for several years and retired at the Coeur d'Alene unit in 1986.

Verle was a lifetime member of Potlatch Post 10300 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Palouse Promenaders Square Dance Club, the Cayuse Kids Saddle Club, the Potlatch Silver Spurs and a former member of the Potlatch Federal Credit Union Board. He had been a 4-H Leader in the community, and had served as a North Latah County Road Commissioner. His hobbies included horses and cattle, camping, four-wheeling and playing cards. He loved animals, enjoyed traveling, and his greatest love was his family.

Survivors include his wife at the Potlatch home; three sons and their wives; two sisters; nine grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a great-grandchild, Kellen Brown, in 2006.

Memorial gifts may be given to the Potlatch Ambulance Fund, P.O. Box 63, Potlatch, ID, 83855; or to a charity of donor's choice.

Lewiston Tribune, January 26, 2012, p. 5C
Transcribed by Jill Leonard Nock

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