Edmund Graves Brown

Six children Edmund Brown, III, of Houston James Ewing Brown of Lafayette Bethia Brown Bundrick of Shreveport Donelson Taylor Brown of Monroe Leander Moore Brown

Brown was born in New Orleans to Edmund Ted Brown, Sr., originally of Newburyport, Massachusetts, and the former Esther Ewing. His brothers, who predeceased him, were Robert Ewing Brown and Toulmin Hunter Brown, both of Pass Christian, Mississippi, near New Orleans. He graduated from Alcee Fortier High School in New Orleans and the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell. He was commissioned in the United States Army and served with the 82nd Airborne Division during World War II. He fought in the Battle of the Bulge, witnessed the close of the war at Ludwigslust on the Elbe River, and served in Germany during Allied occupation. After the war, he continued his studies at Tulane University in New Orleans before he launched his newspaper career at the New Orleans Times Picayune. At Tulane, he met and married the former Bethia Bitza McCay, who survived him.

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