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Dr. Robert K. Brown Dies Following Heart Attack

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28
Month
March
Year
1944
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Dr. Robert K. Brown, 50 years old, a resident of Ann Arbor for the past 23 years, a former professor of dentistry at the University and a practicing dentist here for the past nine years, died suddenly this morning at his home, 504 E. Ann St., following a heart attack.
He was born in Sharpsburg, Pa., on Sept. 22, 1893, the son of William Richard and Bella Jane Dyer Brown. He studied at Indiana State Normal School of Pennsylvania from 1908 to 1911, and attended the University of Michigan from 1912 to 1914. He received the degree of doctor of dentistry from the University in 1919, and was given an M.S. degree in 1928.
Came Here in 1921
He served as a teacher in the public schools of Pennsylvania from 1911 to 1912, and practiced dentistry in Cleveland, O., from 1919 to 1921. He came to the University of Michigan as an instructor in operative dentistry in 1921, and was later promoted to assistant professor, and later to the position of professor and director of the operative clinic. In 1935 he entered private practice in Ann Arbor and has served as a lecturer and research worker in dentistry.
During the last war he was a member of the Medical Reserve Corps of the U. S. Army.
He was county chairman of the dental division of the Red Cross Board for Defense in 1941, and was a trustee of the Pierre Fauchard Academy, a fellow of the American College of Dentists, a member of the American Dental Association, and of the Michigan State and Washtenaw County dental societies. He served as secretary of the state society, and at the time of his death had just completed plans for a meeting of the organization to be held next month.
Was Journal Contributor
He was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon, Delta Sigma Delta, Omicron Kappa Upsilon and of the University Club. He was a contributor of numerous articles to dental journals.
He is survived by his wife, the former Inez Frederica Rieger, and by two children of a former marriage; Capt. Robert B. Brown with a tank division of the U. S. Army in Italy, and Miss Patricia Ann Brown, a student at Hillsdale College.
Funeral services will be held at 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon at St. Andrew's Episcopal church, of which he was a member. Rev. Henry Lewis will officiate and burial will be in Forest Hill cemetery. Friends may call at the Muehlig funeral chapel until 10 o'clock Thursday morning.