While growing up in Lebanon, Joe attended the Lebanon Baptist Church and was baptized in July of 1944. He was, at his death, one of the oldest standing members in the Church. Joe was drafted into the Army during the Korean War where he served as a radio operator in a Field Artillery Battalion. Corporal Wade was discharged on the 15^th of April, 1955 and received the Korean Service Medal and the U.N. Service Medal.

He returned home to Frisco where he met a young lady from Celina at Mr. Bacchus’s Gas Station. There in his khaki pants and blue checkered shirt, smoking a cigar, Joe swept Nancy off her feet. They were married on the 9^th July, 1960 at First Presbyterian in Celina. They had two children, Suzanne and Charles Thomas. His children are 5^th generation residents.

Joe spent his life in the Lebanon/Frisco area, farming with his two brothers, John and James, and later operating a grain elevator. Joe served for many years on the Frisco ISD school board and was one of the charter members of the Frisco VFW. He also enjoyed mowing, a task he was doing when he had his heart attack.

He is survived by his wife, Nancy; daughter, Suzanne; son, Tom; one brother, James and his wife, Daffin; sister-in-law, Pansy Wade Williams; and several nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents and his brother, John Wade.

Funeral Services was held on the 5^th of April, 2012 at Lebanon Baptist Church and interment followed at Rowlett Cemetery.

She was born Feb. 3, 1917, in Frisco to Eugene and Hattie Thomas. She was a retired real estate broker, artist and art teacher. She was a member of Wesley United Methodist Church, ALR Sunday School Class, Greenville Art League, Heritage Association of Frisco and a lifetime member of the DAV.

Eugenia is survived by her daughter, Charlotte Symonds and husband Richard of Longwood, Fla., and grandchildren Renee, Shawn and Arwen Symonds of Florida, Kevin Symonds of New York, Darla Hall of McKinney, and Valerie Ellis of Florida.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Paul Bain; a daughter, Virginia Floyd; and grandsons Ronald Thomas Lake and Mark Floyd.

A graveside service will be at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday in Memoryland Memorial Park with Rev. Paul Gould officiating.

Visitation will be from 10 to 11 a.m. Wednesday at Lynch Funeral Service in Greenville.

Memorials may be made to Wesley United Methodist Church in Greenville.

Online condolences may be made at www.lynchfuneralservice.com or www.heraldbanner.com.

Brown IV, Benjamin F. Dr. Benjamin F. Brown IV, age 81, died peacefully on November 28. 2011at his home in Chevy Chase MD. He is survived by his wife Clara Lovett Brown of Chevy Chase and Phoenix, Arizona, and his brother and sister-in-law, J. Crozier Brown and Rita Brown of Dallas, Texas. Dr. Brown was born in Temple, Texas, on June 24, 1930, the son of Benjamin F. Brown III and Mary Hunt Brown. He grew up in Waco, Texas, where he attended high school and graduated from Baylor University with a BA in English. He continued his studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, earning a master’s degree in Latin American Studies. While working for Bank of America in San Francisco, he enrolled in graduate history courses at the University of California, Berkeley and then transferred to Harvard University, where he earned a Ph.D. in Modern European History. He studied in Italy on a Fulbright scholarship and wrote his dissertation on Sidney Sonnino, Italy’s Foreign Minister during World War II. Continuing this work in the 1960s, while teaching at Sonoma State University in California and later at the University of Kansas, Dr. Brown made a landmark archival discovery: Sidney Sonnino’s public papers. The statesman’s heirs thought these papers had been destroyed. This discovery and subsequent publication of selected documents established Dr. Brown as an authority on the history of modern Italy. The American Historical Association awarded him the Howard Marraro Prize and the Guggenheim Foundation awarded him a research fellowship. Following the Guggenheim fellow-ship year, Dr. Brown moved to Washington D.C., joining the Directorate of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, first as scholar-in-residence and then as senior political analyst. He retired from this second career when his wife, Clara Lovett, the former provost of George Mason University, accepted the presidency of Northern Arizona University. An avid traveler throughout his life, Dr. Brown believed that a college education should include opportunities for young people to study and work abroad. For this reason, he personally funded travel scholarship programs at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and at Thunderbird, The Graduate School of Global Management, Glendale, Arizona. During his years in Flagstaff, Arizona, Dr. Brown played a key role in opening a High Altitude Sports Training Center on the campus of Northern Arizona University, led a major fundraising campaign on behalf of United Way of Northern Arizona, and joined with other community leaders in establishing the Flagstaff Comm-unity Foundation. Moving to Phoenix after his wife’s retirement from the presidency, Dr. Brown remained active in civic and philanthropic endeavors, especially in support of the arts. He served as chairman of the board of a family foundation, the B&L Charitable Foundation, and as a trustee of the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra and Actors Theatre of Phoenix, Arizona. Memorial services for Dr. Brown will be held on January 7, 2012 at 2 PM at St. John’s Norwood Episcopal Church in Chevy Chase MD and on January 14, 2012 at 11 AM at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Phoenix, AZ.