Keith Ellison Brown, age 54, of Brownsville, KY, formerly of Dyersburg, departed this life on Wednesday, June 8, 2016 at The Medical Center in Bowling Green, KY. He was born on March 22, 1962 in Flint, Michigan to the late Sam Brown and Bettie Brock Terry, who survives.

Keith was a Brownsville City Councilman, an Executive Director of the Miss Bowling Green Scholarship Pageant and employed as the Produce Manager at The Cee Bee Food Store. He also attended the First Baptist Church of Finley. Prior to moving to Kentucky, he was a teller for 9 years at First Citizens National Bank in Dyersburg and was an 18 year cast member at Walt Disney World and VIP Guest Relations in Orlando, FL. He was a 1980 graduate of Dyersburg High School and attended Dyersburg State Community College.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday in the Chapel of Dyersburg Funeral Home with Rev. Charles Halliburton officiating. Burial will be in Dyer County Memorial Gardens.

The family will receive visitors from 4-8 p.m. Sunday at Dyersburg Funeral Home, following a visitation at Patton Funeral Home in Brownsville, KY from 5-8 p.m. Friday.

He is survived by his mother, Bettie Terry and husband, Jerry, of Steele, Missouri; one brother, John Brown (Sherrie) of Finley, TN; one nephew, Kyle Brown; a special aunt, Granny Sue Dykes of Finley; a dear friend, George Timothy Reed of Brownsville, KY; several aunts and uncles, including Elizabeth (Lewis) Sullivan of Caseyville, IL; Bob (Faye) Brock; Bud (Ollie) Brock, of Finley; and Dora Freeman of South Carolina; several cousins and a host of friends.

The family requests that memorials be made to Dyer County Community Cancer Fund in memory of Missy Dykes LaBonte.