Northwest Community College Adds Wife Paula to the Tommy Brown Endowment

Paula and Tommy Brown at the Grove. Photo submitted.

Northwest Mississippi Community College recently announced the addition of Paula Tatum Brown to the Thomas Edward (Tommy) Brown Endowment to honor the memory of a loving wife, mother, grandmother and friend.

The original endowment was established in 2013 by Paula and their two sons, Tatum and Hugh.  Through the Brown Memorial Classic Golf Tournament, founded and hosted by Tatum and Hugh Brown, and through many memorial gifts given in memory of Paula after her death in October of 2017, the original endowment has increased from $10,000 to $39,000, according to Sybil Canon, associate vice president of Development and Special Projects.
“We felt like it was something she would have wanted,” her son Hugh said. “It fitted to add her to the scholarship.”
Born in Oxford to Horace and Jo Tatum, Brown retired from the City of Oxford Electric Department.  She was a member of First Baptist Church in Oxford and the Mercy Sunday School Class She was an excellent cook, loved to play golf, and was a member of the Oxford Garden Club.
Though her hobbies were plentiful, what she loved most was her family. Devoted to her husband, Tommy, until his death in 2011, she was also close to Tatum and his wife, Lain, and Hugh, all of Oxford, and her two grandchildren, Georgia and Tindall.
The endowment provides a year of tuition at NWCC for two students, according to Hugh.
Northwest has two scholarship endowments now in the Brown family name. The other, the R.L. Brown endowment, also helps Mississippi students continue their education.
“NWCC has been good to us and we just wanted to give back,” Hugh said.

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