Glenn Davis Brown (1909 - 1992)

On June the 11 of 1930 Glenn Brown and Stella Kaerwer were married in Las Cruces, New Mexico. One year later on the 14th of July their only child, Emma Louise, was born. Times were hard and when Emma was only a month old, Glenn was laid off from his job. It was during the Great Depression and jobs were impossible to come by. So after Glenn had looked and looked for work, Stella went back to work at the telephone office where she had been working at the time of their marriage. Things continued to be hard for a number of years and there was a time when, even though Glenn had been called back to the Smelter to work, he only worked 1 month out of 3. In between months that he worked he found what ever he could do to bring in extra money. There was a time when he worked all week for $3 and then spent it all to give Emma a Halloween party. In 1939 he got an offer to go down to South America to work for Kennicot Copper company so he and his family left and spent the next six years in Caletones, Chile. After he came back from Chile he took his family to live in Hurley, New Mexico for a year. After the year was over, they moved back to El Paso and lived there until 1950 when they went down to Africa for three years with the copper company there. In 1953, they came back from Africa and lived in El Paso for one year. In 1954, they bought a farm in Loving, New Mexico and lived there and farmed until 1963 when they came back and Glenn again went to work for the American Smelting and Refining Co. This time he worked there until his retirement in 1974.