Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Celebrating the life of famed community man, Vern Brown

Vernon Robert Brown died on March 16, 2014 in Providence
Place at age 88. His wife called him the "original entrepreneur."
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By Lisa Goudy


Joan Brown described her late husband Vernon Robert Brown as the “original entrepreneur.”

“He just was a man that gave and you’d never even know it. He just did things,” she said. “It’s unreal. He just did so much.”

Vern died on March 16 at age 88 at Providence Place. Born in Creelman, Sask., Vern had lived in Moose Jaw since 1950.

Upon arriving in Moose Jaw, at age 25, he was one of the two auctioneers hired by the Moose Jaw stockyards to help establish the first live cattle auction in Saskatchewan.

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