Kyle Claude "K.C," Brown, with Memorial Service Update

Correction: The memorial service for K.C. Brown will take place Friday, January 2, 2009 at 1 p.m. at Shiloh Cemetery.

Kyle Claude "K.C." Brown, 62, of Cedar Key passed away at home Monday, December 22, 2008 after a hard fought battle with throat cancer.

He is survived by his wife Eve B. Jensen of Cedar Key, daughters, Judy Hernandez and Joey Henderson and step-son Patrick Brown. He is also survived by brothers, William Earl Brown, Allison Jessie "A.J." Brown, Sr. and half brother Henry J. Brown all of Cedar Key and sister Edna Brown Goode of Kissimmee and half sister Marjorie Harper of Jacksonville.

K.C. was born on January 18, 1946 to Allison Claude Brown and Marjorie Louise Bishop Brown. He was preceded in death by his parents and, son Raymond Earl Brown, Jr. , brothers Henry Allison Brown, Charles Larry Brown, half brothers Raymond Earl Brown and Elbert L. Brown, half sisters, Ruby Bishop, Marie McCain, and Margie Webb.

K.C. volunteered in the United States Navy during the Vietnam War and served aboard the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt CVA-42. He spent most of his life as a commercial fisherman in Cedar Key. He loved every day spent on the water or out of doors. He will be buried with a grave side memorial at a later date at Shiloh Cemetery near Cedar Key.