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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, Louisiana. 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, Louisiana. The obituary does not mention a place of interment.<ref name=obit/> 

On April 24, 2018, Dr. Brown's friends held a memorial dinner in his honor at the East Ridge Country Club in Shreveport. Three hundred twenty-five of his friends raised enough money to establish a local medical scholarship in Brown's. His long-term physician-partner at Ark-La-Tex Cardiology, Dr. Corky Davis, said that Brown [[Curse|cussed]] in dictation ... in front of patients, pastors, but everyone loved him."<ref name=memorialdinner>{{cite web|url=https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/sports/outdoors/2018/04/24/tommy-brown-event-illicits-miles-smiles/548699002/|title=Tommy Brown event illicits miles of smiles|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|author=Jimmy Watson|date=April 24, 2018|accessdate=April 25, 2018}}</ref> Attesting to Brown's generosity, Max Sharp recalled how the physician gave him $30,000 years ago to establish a business: “There was no contract. He just did it because he believed I was going to be successful,” Sharp said of his friend.<ref name=memorialdinner/>  

On April 24, 2018, Dr. Brown's friends held a memorial dinner in his honor at the East Ridge Country Club in Shreveport. Three hundred twenty-five of his friends raised enough money to establish a local medical scholarship in Brown's. His long-term physician-partner at Ark-La-Tex Cardiology, Dr. Corky Davis, said that Brown cursed while giving dictation and "in front of patients, pastors, but everyone loved him."<ref name=memorialdinner>{{cite web|url=https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/sports/outdoors/2018/04/24/tommy-brown-event-illicits-miles-smiles/548699002/|title=Tommy Brown event illicits miles of smiles|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|author=Jimmy Watson|date=April 24, 2018|accessdate=April 25, 2018}}</ref> Attesting to Brown's generosity, Max Sharp recalled how the physician gave him $30,000 years ago to establish a business: “There was no contract. He just did it because he believed I was going to be successful,” Sharp said of his friend.<ref name=memorialdinner/>  

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