WICHITA, Kan. (AP) About 400 mourners gathered to honor U.S. District Judge Wesley Brown, whose stamina and devotion to justice kept him on the federal bench right up until his death at 104.
Brown was the oldest working federal judges in the nation when he died Jan. 23. But his colleagues remembered him at his memorial service Saturday as a man who gave little thought to it himself.
Brown’s law clerk, Mike Lahey, said the judge was a man who lived his life according to two oaths. One he had taken when he became a federal judge in 1963 and the other he took in 1920 when he became a Boy Scout.
Rev. Keith Williamson extolled the audience to let Brown’s life inspire them to do justice and to live with integrity.
