Ruth Maurine Fisher and Henry James Brownlee

HENRY JAMES BROWNLEE was born June 26, 1904 in Page County, Iowa,⁷³⁷⁷ and died June 28, 1965 in Loveland Hospital, Larimer County, Colorado.⁴⁹⁵¹ He is buried in Loveland Burial Park, Larimer County, Colorado.^{4951, 456}

He married RUTH MAURINE FISHER on February 12, 1931 in Clarinda, Page, Iowa,⁴⁹⁵⁰ daughter of MABEL CARRIE HOUSTON and FREDERICK LEE FISHER. She was born January 2, 1909 in Douglas, Boone, Iowa,¹⁸⁸⁴ and died December 9, 1988 in Loveland, Larimer, Colorado.⁴⁵⁶ She is buried in Loveland Burial Park, Larimer County, Colorado.⁴⁵⁶

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Clarinda Journal, February 19, 1931

Brownlee-Fisher

On Feb. 12th, at high noon, the Fred Fisher home was the scene of a beautiful wedding, when their daughter, Ruth Maurine, was united in marriage to Harry James Brownlee. Rev. Carl E. Porson, pastor of the United Presbyterian church of Clarinda, was the officiating minister.

At the appointed hour Miss Reva Larson, niece of the groom, sang "I Love You Truly," followed by a song "Little Sunshine" by Eva Luella Fisher and Doris Houston, sister and cousin of the bride, accompanied by another cousin, Charlene Houston. The bridal party entered to the strains of Lohengrin's "Wedding March," played by Charlene Houston, cousin of the bride. The minister, groom and best man, Vernon Fisher, brother of the bride, were all dressed in dark blue, and entered from a side door after which bride and her attendants entered from another room. First came Reva Larson strewing rose petals in the bride's path from a basket tied with a bow of orchid and gold, this being the color scheme throughout the house. The bridesmaid, Miss Bertha Lindberg, attired in a dress of old rose, entering next carrying an arm basket of orchid and gold sweet peas with smilax. The bride, gowned in a powder blue with sea-sand slipper,and carrying a shower bouquet of tulle, orchid, gold and white sweet peas with ferns, then entered, escorted by her father, met the groom beneath the wedding bell in front of a bank of flowers consisting of sultanas, begonias, foliages, sweet peas and smilax. The single ring ceremony was used in the presence of forty-five relatives and friends. The centerpiece on the dining table was a large, beautiful angle food cake decorated in orchid and gold and baked by Mrs. Francis Youngmark. After congratulations a two course buffet dinner was served. The waitresses were Miss Wylma Higgins, Margaret Williams and Charlene Houston, assisted by Donald Fisher, with aprons and caps of orchid and gold, after which the wedding cake was cut by the bride and served to all. After dinner the bride and groom opened all their presents which were beautiful and useful. then after treating to cigars and candy, the newly weds took a ride in an old Ford decorated for the occasion and were gone for the day.

The bride is the oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fisher, and was graduated from the Clarinda high school with the class of '28. The groom is a prosperous farmer of the North Page vicinity, oldest son of Mrs. Jennie Brownlee, and received his education at North Page.

Mr. and Mrs. James Brownlee have rented the F. L. Fisher farm for the coming year, where they will be at home to their friends soon.

Those present at the wedding were: Rev. Person and wife, and Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Houston of Clarinda, Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Fisher and Vernon, Miss Bertha Lindberg and Miss Wylma Higgins of Villisca, Mrs. Jennie Brownlee, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Larson, Reva and Kenneth, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Royer, Harry and Wayne, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Brownlee and Lois Helen, Mr. and Mrs. Dean Brownlee, Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Schantz and Keith, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Houston, and Charlene and Doris, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Williams and Margaret, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Helberg and Russell and Luella.

Clarinda Journal, July 1, 1965⁴⁹⁵¹

Services at Loveland, Col. for former Yorktown farmer

Funeral services were to be held at Loveland, Colo, this Thursday for James Brownlee, 61, who died at the Loveland Hospital Monday. He had suffered a lengthy illness, and was hospitalized about a week before his death.

A farmer near Villisca and Yorktown, Mr Brownlee moved to Loveland about 22 years ago.

He is survived by his wife, the former Ruth Fisher, and by four sons, Rolan and Lyle of Fort Collins, Colo, Fred of Douglas, Wyo, and Jim of Loveland, Colo, eight grandchildren and two brothers, Glen of Villisca and Dean of Cheyenne, Wyo; three sisters, Myrtle Royer of Clarinda, Addie Larson of Bethesda, and Dorothy Schants of Red Oak.

Burial was in Loveland.