Obituary: Robert L. Brown

A funeral for Dr. Robert L. Brown will be at 9 a.m. Saturday at the First United Methodist Church. An open house reception will follow the service.

Mr. Brown died July 25, 2003. He was born Feb. 23, 1932.

He was raised on a farm in Montana. After high school he went to college and became a music teacher. He decided to study medicine and went to the University of Iowa for two years and then entered medical school in Grand Forks, N.D., transferring to Baylor University in Houston. He interned at the Marine Hospital in San Francisco at the Presidio.

Mr. Brown moved to Nevada, where he worked as a doctor on the Schurz Indian Reservation. He was in charge of caring for American Indians on the western side of Nevada. He worked in Ely in the 1960s, and moved to Carson City in 1966, where he was a general practitioner with Carson Medical Group.

He was named director for the AMA for the state of Nevada in the 1970s. He became director of Carson Convalescent Hospital. In 1988, he closed his practice and went to SIIS where he was the chief medical adviser. He retired in 1994 and then went to work at Churchill Community Hospital which included working in the emergency rooms in Lovelock, Winnemucca and Battle Mountain.

He was a member of the First Methodist Church, where he directed the choir.

He was preceded in death by his father in 1952 and mother in 1975; and brother George in 1990.

Among his survivors are his son Loren, and daughter Alice Walker, both of Carson City; brothers Dwight of Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, Ed of Vancouver, Wash., Arnold of Flagstaff, Ariz., and Floyd of Fairfield, Calif.; sisters Jessie DeVries of Palmer, Alaska, and Phoebe O'Dell of Finland; five grandchildren and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.

FitzHenry's Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.