Benny Joe Brown

Funeral services will be 2:00 pm Saturday, September 9, 2017 at Southside Baptist Church for Benny “Joe” Brown, age 84, of Southside, who passed away Tuesday, September 5, 2017. Rev. Bob Thornton will officiate. Burial will be at Pilgrims Rest Cemetery, Southside. Collier-Butler Funeral and Cremation Services is directing.

Mr. Brown graduated from Southside High School in 1952. While actively farming for 63 years, he served on the Alabama Farm Federation Board, and was awarded Alabama’s Outstanding Young Farmer in 1966. He was Mayor of Southside from 1976-1980. Over the years he served as deacon, and in other capacities at Southside Baptist Church.

Mr. Brown was preceded in death by his wife, Barbara Ann Ryan Brown; father, William Buster Brown; mother, Grace Brown; brother, Don Brown; sister, Jane Armstrong Brown; and grandson, Landon Drew Jones.

He is survived by his children, Vivian Ann (Steve) McCreless, Cecilia Diane (Larry) Jones, Joel Brown, William Brown, and Laura Brown; grandchildren, Holly (Jonathan) Ford, Joseph (Tala) McCreless, Kathryn (Justin) Smith, Benjamin (Tamera) Brown, Wesley Brown, and Savanna Brown; great-grandchildren, Layton Drew Jones, Mary Frances Ford, Rosalie Dearing Ford, and Eliana Grace Brown; sister, Patsy Loving; and several nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers will be Benjamin Brown, Wesley Brown, Gage Fuhrman, Layton Jones, Joseph McCreless, and Nathan Sewell.

Honorary pallbearers are the Early Morning Coffee Friends at McDonalds.

Special thanks to Dr. Judith Quilon, Dr. Michael Naughton and the third floor staff of Riverview Medical Center, Lauil Thompson, and Jerry and Barbara Jones.

The family will receive friends from 1:00-2:00 pm at the church prior to the service.

Flowers will be accepted, or memorials may be made to Southside Baptist Church.

Online condolences may be made at www.collier-butler.com.