Stanley Brown was born on February 26, 1950, to Denver and Anna Pearl Brown in Clinton, Mo. Stanley was the second oldest of nine siblings. The Brown family was the largest African American family in the Clinton area. Denver and Anna Pearl taught their children to never see color as everyone was equal in God’s eyes. However, some of the community didn’t see it this way.
Stanley attended an all-black school his 1st grade year in Clinton. He was the pt black to attend the
integrated school his 2nd grade year in Lincoln. At a young age he started working to help support his
large family doing odd jobs like mowing yards and dishwashing. Children wouldn’t invite him or allow
him to attend classmate’s birthday parties due to his color. That is until Maria. Stanley will never forget that she was the first girl to ever invite him to a birthday party.
At 11 he was the 1st and only African American to be an Eagle Scout from Clinton Missouri. He also
became a member of the 2nd Baptist church of Clinton. Which later became Save Our World Ministries where his brother Pastor. Stanley graduated from Clinton High School. After high school he decided to attend college in Warrensburg, Mo. Stanley’s love for music was his motivation behind his music major. The dorm life was one big party which Stanley was not interested in. During his 2 ½ years he was named Master of Ceremonies. Unfortunately, between the wild parties around him and the bullying and
disownment from his fellow black community for “acting to white” Stanley had enough and dropped out of college and moved back to Clinton.
Stanley did attend John Casablanca’s school of modeling on the Plaza of Kansas City. At a contest he
took pt place in the sexiest contest. He again was the only African American in the contest and beat out ten other contestants. Stanley has accomplished many things in his 73 years including polit lessons to
digging worms to modeling. He even owned an antique store. There’s not much he hasn’t done. He was voted Henry County Young Democrat State Administrative Vice President where he met Bob Hope and got his autograph. Stanley was also the first African American to be the director of the Henry County Fair Parade. “Children in Wonderland” was the theme. Stanley was able to get Jane Froman who was a
famous actress and singer from Clinton area to make an appearance. As well as Clinton’s Mayor and
Missouri Governor Kit Bond, two Playboy bunnies and Miss Missouri joined the parade ceremonies.
Stanley has never married nor had any desire to have children after helping to raise his nine other
siblings. He never really knew exactly what he wanted to do so he did a little of everything. God and
Jesus were his champion and he enjoyed being a Christian. Stanley’s advice to the younger generation is they need more Jesus. If they cared more about other people, there wouldn’t be so many violent
shootings. Stanley says we need to put God first into our country and school systems. Stanley is such a kind loving soul, and we are so blessed to have him at Clinton Healthcare and Rehabilitation.
