James Richard Brown

August 29, 1936 - December 2, 2018

James Richard Brown was called from earthly labor to heavenly reward Sunday morning, December 2, 2018, at his residence in Columbia. Born August 29, 1936, in Kannapolis, North Carolina, he was a son of the late John and Eva Mae McCree Brown. After graduating from Carver High School, he relocated, in 1959, to Brooklyn, New York, where he worked for forty years in an export shipping business. While in New York, he joined 6th Avenue Baptist Church and later Emanuel Baptist Church where he served as an usher and Deacon Emeritus until his relocation to South Carolina, where he joined First Northeast Baptist Church. Among his many services at First Northeast were choir member and devotional leader for the Grateful Ones Ministry. He truly enjoyed life and thanked God daily for his family and friends along his amazing journey. Within the community, James served as a Boy Scout leader, fed the homeless, volunteered in homeless shelters, visited and prayed for the sick in hospitals, and ministered to his fellow man wherever he was needed. James enjoyed jogging, lifting weights, and dancing. Additionally, he took numerous cruises traveling to such locales as Jamaica, Mexico, and the Bahamas. In addition to this parents, he was preceded in death by a son, Angelo Brown, and a sister, Eldora Thompson. He leaves to cherish precious memories, his beloved bride of sixty-two years, Juanita Harris Brown; nine children: Sylvia Broussard, Rickey (Andrea) Brown, Precynda (James) Tucker, Marilyn (Robert) Grant, Trina (Henry) Taylor, Beverly (Charles) Morman; Dwayne (Lois) Brown, John (Tonya) Brown, and Stephanie (Randy) Powell; and a host of grandchildren, great-grandchildren, other relatives and friends who will miss his daily presence in their lives.