Goodwin Funeral Home in Frankfort invite the public to line the square to join them in bringing home PFC Clossie Brown on Friday with an estimated time of arrival 5:45 p.m. – 6:15 p.m. if you desire, bring your flags to wave. Clossie died on January 21, 1945 near the village of Reipertswiller, France during WWII at the age of 37. In June 2021 and August 2022, the Department of Defense and American Battle Monuments Commission exhumed the remains of Unknowns from Lorraine American Cemetery, in France and from Ardennes American Cemetery in Belgium for forensic analysis and comparison with PFC Brown, among other unresolved casualties. Identification was made from DNA specimens obtained from maternal cousins of Clossie Brown.
Clossie was born September 24, 1908 in Kirklin, Ind. the son of Alonso D. & Mary (Shimmel) Brown. He had three siblings, Alvin Dewey Brown, Denzel Louis Brown and Losa Cleo Brown. He married Mildred Irene Cline and they had two children, Barbara Joan (Brown) Heaton and David Lee (Joyce) Brown, two granddaughters, Roslyn R. (Heaton) Clendenning of Kokomo, IN and Annette J. (Brown) Sisson of Story City, IA.
