Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Brown children, three from his first marriage to Eleanor Bennett Durall and two from his marriage to Phyllis George, welcomed ...

Former Kentucky Gov. John Y. Brown, who died Nov. 22 at age 88, was a pioneer of the fast-food restaurant industry. Before going into politics, Brown made a fortune in the restaurant business, ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Funeral services for former Kentucky Governor and KFC President John Y. Brown, Jr., will take place next week. Brown will lie in state at the Kentucky Capitol in Frankfort on ...

The late Kentucky governor John Y. Brown, Jr. has already cemented his place in the history books. Now the politician and entrepreneur, who died almost two years ago, could be featured on the silver ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Charismatic, innovative, a risk-taker. Those are just a few of the ways people describe the late John Y. Brown, Jr. Kentucky's 55th governor and the man who took Kentucky ...

SEVEN DAY. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, J. HAPPENING RIGHT NOW, THE VISITATION FOR FORMER KENTUCKY GOVERNOR JOHN WILEY BROWN JR. HE’S LYING IN STATE IN THE CAPITOL ROTUNDA IN FRANKFURT, WLKY AS MARK ...

John Y. Brown Jr., who built KFC into one of the largest and most recognizable restaurant brands in the world before serving as the governor of Kentucky, has died at the age of 88, CNN and multiple ...

John Y. Brown, a former governor of Kentucky who helped create the modern restaurant franchising industry as co-owner of Kentucky Fried Chicken from 1964 through 1971, says the defining speech of his ...

YOU’RE NOT FEELING WELL. SADLY, FORMER KENTUCKY GOVERNOR JOHN WAYNE BROWN HAS DIED. BROWN DIED YESTERDAY AT THE AGE OF 88. THE LEXINGTON NATIVE SERVED FROM 1979 TO 1983. HE WAS ALSO PART OF AN ...

Colonel Harland Sanders, right, sold Kentucky Fried Chicken for $2 million to John Young Brown, Jr., shown with the famous inventor of chicken's secret recipe on Jan. 29, 1964. Brown, a former ...