DEAN THOMAS BROWN 1941-1985 PERU Approved 1973   Thomas Dean Brown was born September 14, 1941, in Macomb, Illinois. He was raised on a farm near Carthage, Illinois. On January 17, 1951, he accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as his personal Savior. He married Fran Gleckler, August 18, 1962. Tom was working for John Deere Tractor and he was tithing, giving to missions and serving in the church but he said that God kept saying "more." Every night when he got off work, he would go to the top of a hill overlooking the city and pray "God give me the peace of doing your perfect will." Soon after that in their mission conference, he surrendered to preach His Word. He graduated from Baptist Bible College in 1972 and was approved as a Baptist Bible Fellowship missionary to Peru in 1973. Tom did a outstanding work in Peru, helping to establish churches and training future preachers and workers in the Bible Institute. On May 4, 1985, four men drove inside their yard as their daughter, Esta was returning from the grocery store. They threatened Esta, Fran and Cade Harmon (missionary Max Harmon's son) with guns. Tom had been in his study preparing for Sunday's sermon. When Tom came out of the room he struggled with one man and another man fatally wounded him in the chest. Tom is buried in Lima, Peru. He was survived by his wife, Fran and two sons, Gary and Tate, and a daughter, Esta.