Mark Klever shared a story about Rex Browning

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Rex
Browning

1933 - 2017

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Boxholm, Iowa

I was saddened to here of Rex's passing. Rex was a friend and collegue while we coached 5 yrs together
at Grand Community Schoo in Boxholm, Iowa, which is where he started his teaching and coachin career.. Rex coached the boy BB team and always had very good teams, he was a good coach. I was a first year girls BB coach and Rex was a great mentor for me. He was always ready to help and offer advice.

Because of Rex's unquie personality and the good BB teams he produced he was well know by coaching and school personnel in the area was well as many parts of the state of Iowa. I still live in the area and people to this day still ask me about Rex.. He was one of those people that all knew him by just his first name. Rex had a gift for talking and making people smile. And for some reason his wfe, Jan, seemed
to be raising her eyebrows during those time! Those were great times that I will always remember.

One summer Rex and I drove to his boyhood home outside of Athens Texas. We went hunting and
fishing in local farm ponds. Rex was a great shot with his .22 as I saw him shot a walnut out of the air.
His neighbors had said that he could and I thought, oh sure, but he did, several times. Rex was from a
very meager upbringing, but wth an education he did very well in life. But he always said, even when
we taught at Grand Community, that someday he was going back home, and he did.

To cntinue to add to Rex's obtuary, Rex was an all conference basketball player when he
played college basketball at Westmar Colleg in LeMars, Iowa.

Rex, thanks for the memories!

Mark Klever
Dayton, Iowa

Posted by Mark Klever

Monday August 14, 2017 at 12:14 am