Sylvia Ann Brown (1940)

b. 11/8/1940

Biography
Sylvia was born at Beersheba Springs, Tennessee and grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where she graduated from Tyner High School in 1958. She worked for Continental Film Productions while attending the University of Chattanooga (now the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga), then worked at the Library of Congress in in Washington, DC, and for the Western Union Telegraph Company in Cookeville, Tennessee, and Macon, Georgia. At Macon, she married her husband, Jerry, and began her career as a National Park Service Ranger at Ocmulgee National Monument. In 1987, she earned a commission from the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center at Brunswick, Georgia, and in 1988 was presented the National Park Service's Freeman Tilden Award, the Service's highest commendation for interpretive excellence for developing the park's Discovery Lab and Teacher's Guide, which were widely emmulated. Sylvia received extensive training in cultural resources management and museum curation. In the year 2000, the State of Georgia named her a Woman of Outstanding Achievement in the preservation of the state's history and the Muscogee (Creek) Nation officially recognized her efforts in preserving Muscogean history. She retired in September 2003 as one of only two National Park Service employees to receive the title Master Ranger.

Parents
Father: Carlos Wayne Brown

Mother: Frances Tula Coppinger

Spouse
William Jerry Flowers

Children

 * 1) Christopher Wright Flowers
 * 2) Gregory Wayne Flowers

Contributors

 * 1) Beersheba1