Thomas Glenn Brown died Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020, at University Hospital at age 94.
Tom was born June 6, 1926, to Ray and Alma Winrod Brown at Sleeper in Laclede County, Missouri, and grew up in Lebanon, Missouri, attending the public schools and the Congregational Church.
During World War II, he did essential work at Fort Leonard Wood and in the state of Washington. When he enrolled at the University of Missouri in the College of Agriculture, he continued to travel to Washington each summer for employment, graduating in January 1949 with a bachelorâs degree in agriculture economics.
He began work with the University of Missouri Cooperative Extension Service in Ray County, Missouri, as assistant county Extension agent, later moving to Audrain, Adair and Lincoln counties as a county Extension agent. One year was spent on a dairy farm in Adair County.