The Methodist church here was filled Tuesday when services were held for Paul Melvin Brown, 19, Seaman First Class, U.S. Navy, who died at the Bremerton Naval Hospital, Bremerton, Wash., on Monday of last week, of malarial tuberculosis.

Paul was the fifth lad from this community to lose his life in the present war, but the first to be buried at home.

The body arrived here Sunday evening at 8:45, escorted by Ernest R. Martin, S 1/c. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Brown, had gone to Washington when they were told of his condition, but did not arrive before his death.

Paul was born in Deshler July 31, 1925, the son of Melvin and Madge Dilsaver Brown. He graduated from Deshler High School in 1943, where he had been an outstanding basketball and baseball star.

On April 22, 1943, he enlisted in the Navy and was sent to Great Lakes Naval Training Station for his boot training, after which he went to submarine school at New London, Conn., then took further submarine training and later active duty from New Guinea and Australia. He was first hospitalized at Pearl Harbor, then four weeks later brought to the hospital at Bremerton.

Besides his parents, he is survived by a twin sister, Pauline, and a grandmother, Mrs. Alice Dilsaver, all of Deshler.

The local American Legion post was in charge of funeral services, held at the Methodist church Tuesday at 2 p.m., with Rev. F. G. Boroff, pastor of the church, officiating. Interment was in Woodlawn cemetery.