Funeral arrangements for fmr. Kentucky Gov. John Y. Brown Jr. announced

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) – Funeral preparations have been introduced for former Kentucky governor and businessman John Y. Brown, Jr.

Brown handed away Tuesday on the age of 88.

In accordance with CNN, visitation will happen Tuesday, November 29, on the Kentucky Capitol rotunda the place Brown will lie in state. His service will likely be 3 p.m. on the state Capitol constructing the next day.

Whereas Brown served as governor from 1979 to 1983, his enterprise ventures, sports activities ownerships and marriage to former Miss America Phyllis George are what he is perhaps remembered for many.

He was born in Lexington in 1933 and was the son of former U.S. Rep. John Y. Brown, Sr.

After a quick stint within the household’s legislation follow, Brown and a bunch of traders purchased Kentucky Fried Rooster in 1964 for $2 million, turning Col. Harland Sanders’ eating places into a world chain.

Within the Seventies, Brown bought possession stakes in a number of skilled basketball groups.

In 1979, after marrying his second spouse, Phyllis George, Brown received the Democratic celebration’s nomination for Kentucky governor and went on to defeat former governor Louie B. Nunn.

“He was a salesman primarily. and what I believe he was adept at promoting was the state,” Former congressman Ben Chandler stated. “Between himself and his spouse, Phyllis George, they actually did an incredible job, I believe, of promoting Kentucky to the skin world.”

Brown’s time period as governor was marked by powerful financial occasions, finances challenges, and state worker layoffs. After serving one time period, his lieutenant governor, Martha Layne Collins, went on to turn out to be Kentucky’s first and solely feminine governor.

Brown tried to make a political comeback in 1987 however did not win the Democratic celebration’s nomination for governor.

After the defeat, Brown centered once more on his enterprise ventures which included teaming up with nation star Kenny Rogers to create a rooster restaurant chain and later a meal prep kitchen idea with actress Suzanne Somers.

Brown’s enterprise accomplishments put him on the Harvard Enterprise Faculty’s record of “Nice American Enterprise Leaders of the twentieth Century.”

Gov. Andy Beshear has directed that flags in any respect state workplace buildings be lowered to half-staff in Brown’s honor till sundown on the day of interment.

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