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Dr. Brown was divorced from Diane Peppers Brown of Covington in St. Tammany Parish. In addition to their son, Craig of Shreveport, the Browns have a daughter, Kimberly Luminais and husband, Keith, of Mandeville, also in St. Tammany Parish. Dr. Brown still called his children "baby" even as they became adults.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/2018/01/01/dr-tommy-browns-daughter-he-called-us-baby/994430001/|title=Dr. Tommy Brown’s daughter: ‘he called us baby’|author=Jimmy Watson|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=January 2, 2018}}</ref> He had two granddaughters and two surviving sisters.<ref name=obit/> 

Dr. Brown was divorced from Diane Peppers Brown of Covington in St. Tammany Parish. In addition to their son, Craig of Shreveport, the Browns have a daughter, Kimberly Luminais and husband, Keith, of Mandeville, also in St. Tammany Parish. Dr. Brown still called his children "baby" even as they became adults.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/2018/01/01/dr-tommy-browns-daughter-he-called-us-baby/994430001/|title=Dr. Tommy Brown’s daughter: ‘he called us baby’|author=Jimmy Watson|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|accessdate=January 2, 2018}}</ref> He had two granddaughters and two surviving sisters.<ref name=obit/> 

Brown died at Baylor Medical Center in [[Dallas]], Texas. Though he had been ill only for a few weeks, he had sustained a virus in his heart several years earlier which proved resistant to treatment. In the last few years of his practice, he had retired from surgery but continued to treat heart patients by non-surgical means.<ref name=tst/> Services were to be held on January 4, 2018, at the First [[United Methodist]] Church in downtown Shreveport, with pastor Pat Day officiating. A memorial service will be held at a later date at Fellowship [[Baptist]] Church in the Oak Grove community in Converse. The obituary does not mention a place of interment.<ref name=obit/> 

Brown died at Baylor Medical Center in [[Dallas]], Texas. Though he had been ill only for a few weeks, he had sustained a virus in his heart several years earlier which proved resistant to treatment. In the last few years of his practice, he had retired from surgery but continued to treat heart patients by non-surgical means.<ref name=tst/> Services were held on January 4, 2018, at the First [[United Methodist]] Church in downtown Shreveport, with pastor Pat Day officiating. A memorial service will be held at a later date at Fellowship [[Baptist]] Church in the Oak Grove community in Converse. The obituary does not mention a place of interment.<ref name=obit/> 

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