Barbara J. Brown, 58, of Cairo died Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2003, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau.

She was born Jan. 18, 1945, in Fort Royal, W.Va., daughter of Floyd E. and Edith Hafford Fair. She married Charles W. Brown Jr.

She was a former bartender at Cairo VFW Hall. She was a member of First Christian Church.

Survivors include her husband, and a brother, Ronald Fair of Mounds, Ill.

She was preceded in death by her parents and a brother.

Friends may call at Barkett Funeral Home in Cairo from 5 to 8 p.m. today.

The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Friday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Richard Pigg officiating. Burial will be in Spencer Heights Cemetery at Mounds.