2021 Hometown Heroes

Page 20 2021 Hometown HEROES Magazine LINCOLN DAILY NEWS May 27, 2021 Brown also helped younger people with difficulties: bad family backgrounds, poverty, and problems with the law. Brown helped them escape their limitations and difficulties, and made them better people. “He helped so many who were going down the wrong path, some of whom became very successful in life,” Duvall said. In his class, Brown especially stressed toughness, integrity and perseverance. In his career as a Deputy Sheriff, Brown passed on those qualities even to those who he arrested, Duvall said. Brown worked with many of those he sent to jail to turn their lives around. Afterward they talked highly of him. Brown treated people with fairness and conveyed a sense that they had value no matter what their background or status was. Duvall says that Scott Brown’s death hit him very hard. They had talked daily on the phone for years, and on the day in September 2019 when Scott told him he had terminal cancer, Bob was crushed and crying, but Scott remained upbeat. Scott Brown’s page on social media has a huge outpouring of tribute messages from friends, former students, and those who Brown was associated with in law enforcement. Duvall said the world needs more people like Scott Brown. God gave Brown a special gift with which Brown impacted so many lives. Mark Landers said, “I have known Scott Brown since I was 13. He was my instructor, mentor, and friend. Scott’s CONTINUED u