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Margaret Fay Parks Brown
contributed by The Hugo Daily News

    Longtime Hugo resident Margaret Fay Brown, 81, of Duncan, died Monday, May 2, 2005, in Country Club Care Nursing Home.

    Graveside service was held at 2 p.m. Friday in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Hugo. Carter-Smart Funeral Home of Duncan was in charge of arrangements.

    Fay was born Nov. 27, 1923, in Hugo, to Rufus Newton and Maudie Frances Parks. She graduated from Hugo High School in 1941.She married R. Jay Brown on June 30, 1945, in Hugo. He was ordained as a Baptist minister in 1956 at First Baptist Church, Hugo, and became pastor of Oak Grove Baptist, east of Hugo.

    Mrs. Brown accompanied him to pastorates in Muskogee and Warner before returning to Hugo in 1963. After serving Southside Baptist Church in Hugo, the Rev. Brown accepted the pastorate of Central Baptist Church, near Marlow, in 1965. He died June 22, 1979.Mrs. Brown moved to Duncan in 1980, and to Lawton in 1981. She returned to Duncan in 1992. For the past four years, she had been a resident of a Duncan nursing home. She was a member of First Baptist Church of Duncan.

    Survivors include a son, John W. Brown, and a daughter, Jayne Boykin, both of Duncan.