Ralph Lofton Brown, Ph.D., passed away on Dec. 17, 2020, at Paris Regional Medical Center in Paris, Texas due to Covid 19.
Bright-Holland Funeral Home has scheduled graveside services for 2 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 20 at Woodland Cemetery, with Renate McCoin officiating. A formal visitation is not scheduled; however, friends and family may pay their respects at the funeral home through noon Sunday. Due to the pandemic, it is requested that those attending the service wear a mask and practice social distancing.
He was born to Lofton and Dixie Esther Starnes Brown in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on Oct. 16, 1937. Dr. Brown was born two months premature and weighed three and half pounds. He had double pneumonia right after birth and lost to two and half pounds. The doctor in Oklahoma City gave his parents no hope of his survival. He spent the next two months in an incubator in the hospital in Oklahoma City. His mother, Dixie Brown, went to the hospital each day to see him. There were a lot of