To: Members of the Brown Family:
From: Carolyn Ruth Hunt
3204 Coral Park Drive, Cincinnati, OHio 45211-6928 Phone: 513-662-5532
Dear______________________________,
I am writing to everyone listed at the bottom of this letter so the information will be as accurate
as possible and all the same information.
I am writing to tell you that Fred Munier’s middle son, Dean, (age 39) has been diagnosed with
lymphoma-sarcoma, a very serious cancer. The tumor is large and has grown around muscle and (I
think) an artery and into the spine at the lower end of the spine on the left side. It was bad enough that
the doctors in Tulsa (where he lives) could not fully diagnose it and he had to go to Houston to a special
cancer hospital for 5 days for full diagnosis. He was then sent home to Tulsa for Chemo therapy which
he is undergoing right now.
The hope is that the chemo will reduce the tumor enough so they can operate, because right now
it is too large and invasive to operate to remove. Near the end of this month, he will go back to
Houston for more tests and hopefully a successful operation.
Fred is really upset, not only because of Dean’s illness, but also because it is almost impossible
for them to get any information from Dean’s wife, Dianna. She is not allowing any calls to Dean, even
from Fred. Fred is so upset he was/is seriously thinking about asking Tex Wadley (his father-in-law) to
borrow his RV motor home, drive it to Tulsa and park it in Dean’s driveway and live there!! I don’t
know that he will really go that far, but he WILL fly to Houston and be there when Dean is in Houston
at Anderson Hospital, whenever that time comes. “Little Freddie”, Dean’s younger brother and Fred’s
3rd son, will probably go, too.
Fred, Robin, Joseph & Suzanne did drive to Oklahoma for 10 days the first of August to see and
talk with and visit with Dean, as much as he could tolerate.
That is about all we know for now, but I will keep you posted. If the information is complex, I
will write again. If it is simple, I will call Cary/Lindsay and Glenn or Francis and you can pass the word
along to other members of the family. I have Dean’s address if you want to send cards.
Much Love,
Cary & Lindsay Brown (please tell Gary & Gale’s family)
Francis and Doris Brown (please tell Ronnie – I don’t have their new address)
Glenn & Evelyn Brown
Bruce & Miriam Shue
Connie & Warren Smith
Max & Dottie Munier