A wedding of interest to a large circle of friends was that of Miss Julia Young and the Rev. Brown C. Welch, who were united in marriage at Floydada, Texas, where Amarillo Presbytery was in session, on Saturday evening, March 20, just after the close of the evening service. The wedding took place in the presence of a few friends, with the Rev. E. M. Jennings, pastor of the Lubbock Cumberland Presbyterian Church, officiating. Mrs. Jennings played "Have Thine Own Way, Lord," and after prayer the vows were read and entered into by the contracting parties in what the officiating minister has described as one of the most Christian weddings he ever witnessed.

Brother Welch, whose home was formerly at Savannah, Tenn., was for two years a student at Bethel College, where he made good in his school work. He is now pastor of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at Shamrock, Texas, where he is doing a good work. He makes friends rapidly, is a close student of the Cumberland Presbyterian doctrine, and a promising young preacher.

Mrs. Welch, who is a daughter of C. F. Young, of near Lubbock, has been for a number of years an active worker in various departments of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at Lubbock. She is a graduate of Lubbock High School and the Texas Technological College. She is now teaching in the English department of a fine rural school.

Both are thoroughly consecrated to Christ and the church. Their many friends wish for them a long life of happiness and usefulness in the Master's service.--Reporter.
[Source: May 6, 1937, page 16]

FORT WORTH--Julia Frances Welch, 88, a retired teacher with the Fort Worth Independent School District, died Wednesday, July 19, 2000, at a private care home in Watauga under the caring and watchful eye of her own personal angel, Audrey Jackson.

Funeral: 10 a.m. Monday at Shannon Rose Hill Funeral Chapel. Burial: Shannon Rose Hill Memorial Park. Visitation: The family will receive friends at the funeral home 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday.

Julia Frances Welch was born July 31, 1911, in Dover, Ark., to the late Charley Floyd Young and Effie Katherine Parker Young. The middle child of nine, she loved her large family of brothers, sisters, nieces and nephews, and maintained close relationships with them. She graduated from Lubbock High School and Texas Tech University. She married her husband of 63 years, the Rev. Brown C. Welch, in 1937. Her first teaching job was in Pettit, where she was also the girl's basketball coach. She taught English and Spanish at North Side and Polytechnic high schools in Fort Worth. She had a love for teaching and was so proud of many of her students who later gained recognition in their careers, including Congresswoman Kay Granger, broadcaster Tom Schieffer and former Fort Worth Mayor and state Sen. Hugh Parmer. She committed her life and her faith to the support of her husband in his ministry with the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Even after retiring from the Fort Worth Independent School District, she continued as a volunteer aide at Atwood McDonald Elementary and as a Spanish teacher at Meadowbrook Senior Citizens center. She never met a stranger and loved being with people, especially children.

She was preceded in death by her brothers, Clarence, Claude, Charles "Bud," William "Teler" and Robert "Pete" Young; and a sister, Nell "Ned" Gentry.

Survivors: Husband, Brown C Welch Sr.; sons, John Charles and wife, Ann, of Springhill, Fla., Brown C. Jr. and wife, Libby, of Burleson and David Paul of Kamiah, Idaho; daughter, Jolene Mershon and husband, Jim, of Mansfield; sister, Marie Rogers of Ulysses, Kan.; 11 grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.
[Source: "Star Telegram," July 23, 2000, page 11B]

The Rev. Brown Welch 89, a retired minister, passed away peacefully in his sleep December 5, 2000, at a personal care home in Watauga, Texas. The funeral was held December 8, at Shannon-Rose Hill in Fort Worth, Texas, with Rev. James Gilbert in charge.

Welch was born June 18, 1911, in Hardin County, Tennessee, to Samanthia and John C. Welch. He attended Bethel College in Tennessee and then moved to Texas to attend Texas Tech. The Rev. Welch was ordained into the ministry of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in 1934. He pastored Texas churches in Amarillo, Shamrock, Petersburg, Garden City and Lubbock. He retired from St. Mark Cumberland Presbyterian Church, which under his leadership during the 1960s, became the first integrated church in Fort Worth. Bethel College bestowed a Doctor of Divinity Degree upon him.

Rev. Welch was married to Julia Frances for 63 years. She preceded him in death in July 2000. He is survived by three sons and one daughter.

The family requests that any memorials be made to the Brown & Julia Welch Endowment for the Cumberland Presbyterian Board of Missions, 1978 Union Ave., Memphis, TN 38104.
[Source: The Cumberland Presbyterian, January 2001, page 12]