Larry Brown affectionately known as "Sleep" was born in Steubenville , Ohio, on September 22, 1957, to Phillip Brown , Sr and Erleen Jeter-Brown . He passed away on September 16, 2022, in Weirton , West Virginia.

Larry enjoyed life to the fullest. He loved his family and friends. Larry enjoyed skating and had a knack for fixing computers.

He was preceded in death by his maternal grandparents Arthur Jeter and Essie Mills-Jeter; paternal grandparents Henry Brown and Betty Carter-Brown ; parents Phillip Brown , Sr, and Erleen Jeter-Brown ; and grandchildren , Chequela Lawson, Jamol , Jr, and Jeremile Alexander .

He is survived by his children Angela Coates of Lansing, Michigan, Shawn (Jessica) Yates of Steubenville , Ohio , Natasha Coleman of East Paulo Alto, California, and Jamol Alexander of Wellsburg , West Virginia; Grandchildren , Deyzha Yates, Iyana Coates , Kiyah Brown-Alexander , and AuBriella Alexander ; Siblings , Phillip Brown , Jr of Steubenville , Ohio , Betty Brown and Bernadette Davis of Columbus, Ohio , Mallory Keith Brown and Jeffrey Brown of Steubenville , Ohio, and a host of nieces , nephews , cousins , and friends .

The family will receive friends on Saturday, September 24, 2022, from 1:00 pm until the time of the funeral service, 2:00 pm at the GREGORY-MARTIN CHAPEL, 255 S. 7th Street in Steubenville, Ohio. The Reverend Maurice Lawson will deliver words of comfort.

Al l Is Well

Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room. I am I ; you are you . Whatever we were to each other, that we are still . Call me by my old familiar name. Speak to me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference into your tone ; wear no forced air of solemnity of sorrow . Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together. Play , smile, think of me , pray for me . Let my name be ever the household word it was . Let it be spoken without effect , without the ghost of a shadow on it . Life means all that it ever meant . It is the same as it ever was. There is absolutely unbroken continuity. What is this death but a negligible accident? Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight ! I am but waiting for you, for an interval , somewhere very near, just around the corner … ALL IS WELL.