My husband, Kenneth E. Brown, was born in Larned, Kansas, and as a PK (Preachers Kid)
  lived in several other Kansas towns before his father, the Rev. Chas. E. Brown, was
  called to the First Methodist Church in Kiowa in 1927. Being a preacher's kid had its
  drawbacks, but by the time the family moved to Kiowa, Ken and his brother, Charles, two
  years his senior, had reached a size and age where they no longer had to fight every boy 
  in a new town to prove they were not sissies.
     Ken finished high school in Kiowa, then attended Friends University in Wichita and
  Southwestern College in Winfield where he played football and was a member of Pi Sigma
  Phi. During the Depression, he lived in Ft. Collins, Color., and learned the sheet metal
  trade.
     I, Jean Brown, was born and reared in Kiowa; my parents were Mr. and Mrs. Chas. H. 
  McBrayer. After high school, I attended Brenau College in Gainesville, Ga., for two
  years and was a member of Alpha Chi Omega social sorority and Mu Phi Epsilon honorary
  music sorority. I received my BA degree from Oklahoma University, then worked for the 
  Kansas State Budget Dept. in Topeka.
     After a lengthy engagement period, thanks to the Great Depression, Ken and I were
  married in 1940 in Dallas, TExas. Ken was an instructor with the National Youth
  Administration at Waco, Texas, until the attack on Pearl Harbor. He resigned then to work
  on construction of the Boeing bomber plant at Fort Worth. In 1942 he enlisted in the Army
  Air Corps. He was stationed at Enid, Okla., and Dodge City in the States, and in England
  and France after he went overseas. During his military service, I worked for the Kansas
  Civil Service Dept. in Topeka.
     After the war, Ken opened a sheet metal shop in Kiowa, specializing in heating and
  air-conditioning. He was also engaged in farming and raising cattle in Kiowa and at
  Pierceville, KS., until his death in 1962. He served on the Kiowa City Council, was past
  master of Cosmos Lodge, a member of the Wichita Consistory, Midian Shrine, and VFW.
     Following Ken's death, I took postgraduate work in Library Science at Northwestern
  Oklahoma State University and was librarian at the Kiowa Public Library for eleven years.
  I was also employed in the medical records department of the Kiowa District Hospital for
  12 years, holding the two jobs simultaneously part of that time. I am a member of Kiowa
  Delphi Club, the American Association of University Women, Kansas Authors Club, Kansas
  State Historical Society, and have recently written a history of the City of Kiowa.
     Our only child, Charles, is a professional photographer in California. He attended
  Ft. Hays State University, the University of Kansas, and Brooks institute of Photography
  in Santa Barbara, California.
               
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 115 
     Submitted by: Jean M. Brown