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Capt. Jimmie Dale Brown, 82, of Selmer, Term., died June 25 after a long battle with Al-zheimer's. He went to work on the river at the age of 19 (1957) and retired at the age of 65. After his second retire-ment, he tripped for various com-panies (Magnolia,Florida Marine,Southern) another five years.Brown started on the deck, worked his way through the engineroom and on to the wheelhouse. He was a licensed captain, retiring initially as port cap-tain from Inland Oil & Transport Com-pany and later retiring from Southern Towing Company. His first boat as cap-tain was the mv. Lady Kimberly of IOT.While employed by IOT, he was privi-leged to be heavily involved in the con-struction and christening of the mv.Lady Mignon. Brown brought this boat out of the yard and rode it for many years as captain.His son, Capt. Dale Brown, recently re-tired from Ingram Barge Line. His daugh-ter, Pam Mitchell, is co-owner of Con-trolled Water Systems Inc. of Selmer. |