MR. ROSCOE BRUMBAUGH Best known as professional wrestler “Sputnik Monroe”, passed away peacefully in his sleep on November 3, 2006.
Born in Dodge City, Kansas, he began his career boxing while serving in the United States Navy during the Korean War as a “Frogman”.
He went to become a well known figure in the wrestling profession. Wrestling with Mid-South Wrestling and achieving numerous titles during his 30 year career.
His early wrestling career was spent in Memphis, Tennessee, where he became involved in desegregation and was actually involved with the desegregation of Memphis through the sport of wrestling. Also, among his achievements was being inducted into Memphis’s Hall Of Wrestling in 1994.
He survived by his wife, Joann Brumbaugh; two sons, Alan Hill of Modesto, California and Quentin “The Cajun Brawler” Bell Of Huston, Texas; his daughter, Natalie Bell of Tucson, Arizona ; his brother Gary Brumbaugh of Guadalajara, Mexico; his sister Sue Hoffman of Scottsdale, Arizona; 9 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, please make donations to St. Jude’s Children Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.
Memorial Services will be held November 18, 2006, at 11:00 a.m., at the Veterans National Cemetery in Pineville, Louisiana, under the direction of Hixson Brothers Funeral Home in Alexandria, Louisiana,
To extend online condolences to the Brumbaugh family, please visit us at www.hixonbrothers.com
----I would like to thank Natalie Bell for faxing me this and giving the site the permission to publish it. I think this will also be in the Commercial Appeal tomorrow. Natalie also ask me to tell everyone if someone REALLY wants to send flowers the family is using JR’s Florist in Pineville, LA – 318-640-6790.
MR. ROSCOE BRUMBAUGH 