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08/08/2011 - Robert (Bob) E. Brown
Funeral services will be held on Monday, Aug 8, 2011 at the United Methodist Church in Hay Springs at 10:00 AM with Pastor Rod Heilbrun officiating. Interment will follow at the Hay Springs Cemetery.
Memorials may be made to the Hay Springs Vol. Fire Dept. Building Fund. Donations may be sent to Chamberlain Drabbels Mortuary, PO Box 443, Hay Springs, NE 69347.
Online condolences can be made to www.chamberlainchapel.com
Robert (Bob) Erwin Brown of Hay Springs NE passed away August 2, 2011, at the Good Samaritan Nursing Home in Alliance NE.
Bob was born June 27, 1928 in Valley NE to Archie E. and Leta M. (McDuffee) Brown. At the age of four, his family moved to their homestead 5 miles south of Lingle, Wyoming. There he and his big sister, Arlene, grew up and attended school in Lingle. Bob always chuckled when telling how the bus drivers built their own buses on a truck chassis and heated it with the exhaust pipe. It was here that Bob learn to farm and raise livestock, all the while keeping a sharp eye out for rattlers. They raised wheat and other small grains and had a small cattle herd. Fall brought the hunting season and Bob hunted with his father, Archie and brother-in-law Joe Schneider, often in the Laramie Peak area. At age 18, Bob was stricken with polio and had to wear leg braces and use crutches from then on. They had a Case tractor outfitted with a drawbar step and hydraulics, which was a godsend, for Bob. Us kids all remember riding on the fender, keeping Bob company. It was here that we all developed our baseball arms as we carried a pocket full of rocks and there were always plenty jackrabbits. Grandpa Brown passed away in ’53 and Bob did all the farming from then on. In 1959, Grandma and Bob bought a dry land farm south of Hay Springs and moved there to be closer to us Schneider’s. The homestead at Lingle was sold shortly thereafter. Lingle was never forgotten though as a Lingle newspaper always came in the mail. Bob continued to farm until the early 70’s when he had had enough of the heat and dust and rented out the farm. Bob stayed on the farm until moving to Pioneer Manor in Hay Springs in 2000 and then on to Good Samaritan in Alliance in 2007.
Survivors include niece, Launa Means of Scottsbluff, Nephews, Joe Schneider Jr. of Minneapolis, Tom Schneider of Alliance, Rick Schneider of Hay Springs, 14 great nieces/nephews. 21 great-great nieces/nephews, and 1 great great-great nephew.
Preceding Bob in death were his parents, his sister Loretta Arlene Schneider and brother-in-law Joe G Schneider.
Chamberlain Drabbels Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
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