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For those of you that don't know Loren G, "Totch"
Brown
He was born on Chokoloskee, Island FL, in 1920.
In 1880,
His paternal great-grandfather John J Brown settled here on
Florida's last frontier, Soon after his maternal grandfather,
Charles G. McKinney, came to the frontier and started a forty-year
career as midwife, dentist, storekeeper and sage.
The most
interesting part in Totch Brown's life to him, comes in between the
frontier style of life he lived in the
untamed Everglades
He
became well know after his Book was published
Totch A life in the
Everglades also Video tapes of his life shown
on PBS Television
In Totch's later
years he started spending a lot of time on a small Island in
Chokoloskee Bay that was surrounded by the Everglades National
Park.
He said it took him back to the way he lived
as a child and young man.
He had a real Indian chickee
house made and planned to live on the little Island after his wife
Estelle Passed away on November 11, 1995.
On May 8, 1996 while finishing laying the
flooring down in his little Indian Chickee he had a massive
heart attack and died at age 76.
Doctors had told him some
years before, you have to stop working if you want to live, he told
the Doctor I will die with a hammer in my hand and that is what he
did.
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