Stith Funeral Home

Brown died suddenly March 8 at his home in Florence. He was 53. Funeral arrangments were announced by Stith Funeral Home. More: Friends remember Kenny Brown as principled politically and lover of Jazz and Cajun food He is survived by sisters Judy Black and Janet Setters, his brothers Larry Brown and Jack Brown; eight nieces and nephews; and five great-nieces and a great-nephew. Visitation will be 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, March 16, at First Church of Christ, 6080 Camp Ernst Road, Burlington. A memorial service will follow at 1 p.m. Burial will be in Big Bone Baptist Cemetery in Union. Earlier: Sheriff and Coroner: Boone County Clerk Kenny Brown, 53, has died Send memorials to Big Bone Baptist Cemetery Fund, 11036 Big Bone Church Road, Union, KY 41091.

Boone County's elected clerk since 2010 died suddenly March 8 at his Florence home. He was 53. Boone County Judge-executive Gary Moore said he will pick an interim clerk soon. A three-year county clerk term will be on the ballot in the Nov. 5 general election ballot.  Friends described the former University of Kentucky football scholarship player as kind and a political and government service innovator. Brown was a member of a small group of Boone County political mavericks in the mid-1990s who switched parties from Democrat to Republican. "Kenny and I and at that time deputy jailer Ed Prindle all went down to the county clerk's office together and registered as Republicans," said Sen. John Schickel, R-Union. Elected county leaders, the governor and U.S. president were all Democrats at the time, Schickel said. "The entire county was solidly Democratic," he said. Brown believed in limited government and personal liberty. “He was very principled," Schickel said. "He was used to swimming upstream, but he enjoyed a good political fight.” Schickel was jailer at the time. Brown ...