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Show GEORGE Bli DIES JIT HOMEOF NIECE Veteran Sexton of Episcopal Episco-pal Church Succumbs to General Debility, Special to The Tribune. ODGEX, Sept. 18. George Brown, S4 years of age, veteran sexton at the Church of the Good Shepherd, Episcopal, died at the home of his niece, Airs. T. '. Potter, UU.'l Twenty -seventh street, at 5 o 'cluck this morning, death resulting result-ing i'runi gcnei al debility. The body has been removed to the iarkin & Son undertaking rooms pending completion of funeral a ri angements. To almost every resident of Ogden the veteran sexton was known as '"George, the beilringer. ' ' Perhaps by reason oi annual, custom which he had observed for the past twenty years or more, George was known tor his devotion to the bell which summoned Episcopal worshipers to service. The custom which the veteran so faithfully observed was the ringing of the bell on his birthdays, birth-days, a favor which the church authorities author-ities graciously accorded him. As each succeeding twelve months rolled by George added another stroke to the peals of the birthday bell. It has been more than a year since he was physically able to attend to the regular duties of sexton, but last March on his birthday he again sought the privilege of announcing Lis birthday. He was ' years of age at that time" and the number num-ber of strokes proved too much of a task for the weakened beilringer. The bell sounded 84 times, but only through the aid of George's friends. Mr. Brown was born in London in 18o2 and came to America in JS72. For a time he followed the occupation of gardner, but soon after his arrival in the United States he crossed the plains to Utah and obtained the position of sexton at the Episcopal church. Al- i though incapacitated lor active duties j for the past eighteen months, he held the office of beilringer virtually up to the hour of his death. The niece at whose home he died is his only surviving relative. |