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Showing posts with label Double Dollar Ranch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Double Dollar Ranch. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

William Winn Brown, Kody's Father, Passes Away. Videos, Pictures and Obituary.

**Come back and check for updates to this post! As with the  passing of Curtis Brown, we will not be having comments here. However, you may post comments about the episode "Free Range Browns" here: http://sisterwivesblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/sister-wives-winn-browns-loving-family.html

We request that any condolences to the family be posted where they might see them. I suggest http://www.haskellfuneralhome.com/obits/obituary.php?id=345061


Beloved husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, brother, son, and friend, William Winn Brown, 78, passed away on Saturday afternoon, August 24, 2013, at the family ranch southwest of Lovell, Wyoming.  “Winn” was born on August 28, 1934, in the old two-story hospital in Lovell; the first child of Alma Taylor Brown and Edith Stella Winn Brown.

Winn attended Lovell schools and graduated from Lovell High School in 1952, then spent two years in the U.S. Army Rangers, training as a paratrooper in Panama. While there he managed to survive a parachute malfunction adventure, which he forever claimed took ½ inch off his six foot height.
Winn served in the Southern States Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints from 1956 through February of 1958. He attended Northwest College for awhile, doing rodeo events on the side, until he met and married his sweetheart, Genielle Tew.  Winn then transferred to Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, where he graduated in Agricultural Economics in 1963.

After BYU, Genielle and Winn established their home in Byron, Wyoming. They moved to the family ranch property southwest of Lovell in 1970, where the family still lives.
Winn worked several years for Cache Valley Breeders and Montana Breeders, teaching cattle management to ranchers all over Montana and Wyoming. At the same time, he worked his father’s farm and eventually combined it with his Uncle Elgen’s farm, to realize the original boundaries as homesteaded by Ebenezer Brown in 1902.  Over the years Winn added other neighboring parcels to achieve his life goal of establishing a family ranch property.

Winn’s life was centered around the principles of the restored gospel. He will be remembered for his many stories of his missionary experiences, family and church history events, his ranching adventures, and of his early rodeo and hunting days.  Ask any of his ten children about “when Dad roped the elk”, or the raft trip down the Big Horn Canyon, or “The Mysterious Disappearance of the Military MP Jeep”. He loved Robert Service poems and could recite whole stanzas. Winn was a true cowboy, who never met a stranger.  

Winn was preceded in death by his parents, his younger brother Lionel Dow Brown (Bud), and his son Curtis Taylor Brown (d. June 17, 2013).

He is survived by his siblings Joseph Guernsey (Gurn) Brown, Persis Ann Skinner, Val Young Brown,  Alma Taylor Brown Jr. (Buster), and Emma Louise Christoffersen;  his wives Genielle, Bobbie and Sheryl, and nine children; Cindy Hansen, Scott Allan Brown, Lorilyn Beck, Kody Winn Brown, Christine King, Tricia Lee Garner, Travis Merrill Brown, Leah Nicole Lundquist, and William Michael Brown.  

Graveside services were held Wednesday morning, August 28, 2013 – which would have been Winn’s 79th birthday.  He lays at rest in the Penrose Cemetery. 


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(Thanks for your help Cynical Jinx)

Winn Brown and the Double Dollar Ranch was featured on s02e02 "Free Range Browns"
Can't find the spokes on a wheel video I want.

Janelle's young studs video.

 

Robyn's kids are featured on a farm video. 

 


Comments about above videos and the ranch may be made here: Sister Wives - Winn Brown's Loving Family 

http://sisterwivesblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/sister-wives-winn-browns-loving-family.html

Posts pertaining to the Double Dollar Ranch and Winn's family. One link to a video no longer works but am looking for one that does.

Discussion Page 2 S05E07 "Polygamist Pilgrimage from the Past" and Brown Genealogy

http://sisterwivesblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/discussion-page-2-s05e07-polygamist.html

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Double Dollar Ranch 

 http://sisterwivesblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/double-dollar-ranch.html

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Curtis T. Brown, brother of "Sister Wives" Kody Brown, passed away.

http://sisterwivesblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/curtis-t-brown-brother-of-sister-wives.html

Lionel Dow Brown Obituary
Somewhat foggy, may have to blow up and adjust.


Saturday, July 9, 2011

Double Dollar Ranch

You ask, you get. The Double Dollar Ranch is 8 sections of land in Lovell, WY. Winn's great grandfather, Ebenezer Brown, came from Salt Lake, UT and bought the land in 1902. They are very proud of the land's 5th generation heritage, and that is pretty cool in this day and age.


The listing is: Double Dollar Ranch IRR Trust; Brown, William W & Gordon Beh.
Mr. Beh is not in my Brown file- he may be a younger one; he lives in SLS.


The total acreage of land: 1,740; and many more acres leased from the BLM. The Ranch is a mixture of irrigated farm land and ranchland. That's one HUGE place to take care of.


Total number of structures: 6, all on the home place.
1. The home of Genielle and Winn Brown. Built 1920 (we've seen)
2. 3 single wide Mobile Homes, 1 and 2 bdrm., 1976-77models.
3. Retail Store, 1700 Sq. ft., built in 1930
4. A 200 Sq. ft. tool shed. (Geez, picky picky)
Total Value of land and structures: $627, 538


To me, the structures were assessed a bit high, at abt. $110,000.Depending on the class of land, some lots are valued far higher than others; one 80 acre lot is only worth 7,673- YIKES. Can you imagine what 80 acres next to Las Vegas would be worth?


I am sure Winn is very proud of his home place. Speaking of, how do you cut something like that up between all the kids? A legal nightmare, if you ask me. I've seen 2 siblings fight over everything but the hangers in the closet.


Comments? Thoughts? Learning about land from all over, aren't we?