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Marie Evelyn Browner Kimball

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Marie Evelyn Browner Kimball was born in Pangburn, Arkansas on November 4, 1918, and left this world on December 19, 2013 in Kansas City, Missouri. A 1936 graduate of Cotton Plant High School and 1949 graduate of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, in between she had lived in or visited all 50 states and several foreign countries. During WWII she was one of the US Navy's first half dozen female gunnery instructors, training recruits in the 50 caliber AA gun. Finishing college with a degree in home economics after the war she met her husband of 45 years, the late Vernon L. Kimball, Jr., a Pearl Harbor survivor with whom she had three children. Preceded in death by her parents, Timothy and Edith Browner of Pangburn, her husband, and her brother Carl, she is survived by children Karl Kimball of Little Rock, Kirk Kimball of North Little Rock, Kristi Bates of Blue Springs, Missouri, four grandchildren, six brothers and sisters, and a host of cousins, nephews, nieces, and countless friends and loved ones. A lifelong committed Baptist, her final viewing and reception by the family will be at Griffin Leggett Healey and Roth from 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 27, and memorial service there at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 28. Interment will be with her husband at Crestview Cemetery near Hot Springs at 2:30 p.m. on Dec. 28.

Published December 25, 2013

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