Shirley G. Brown

BROWN, OLSON, HUFFEY, CLEMEN, HAGEN, DOWNER, LOCKHART, MCEVILLY, ENYART, BARTON, SCHULTZ, PAULSEN, RULE, HARRIS

Posted By: Connie Ellis (email)
Date: 11/22/2010 at 16:13:20

Source: Waterloo, Iowa Courier newspaper

October 7, 2010
Contributor is not related.

Shirley Geraldine Brown, 91, of Tripoli, Iowa, formerly of Waterloo, Iowa, died Wednesday, October 6, 2010, at Tripoli Nursing Home. She was born May 2, 1919, in Postville, Iowa daughter of Walter and Tilda (Olson) Huffey. She married LuVerne Brown August 12, 1940 in Burr Oak, Iowa. She graduated from Decorah High School. She worked at Sears and Roebuck in Waterloo, retiring in 1982. She was a member of Grace Lutheran Church in Waterloo.
She is survived by her husband; three daughters, Jacquelyn (Herb) Clemen of Readlyn, Iowa, Janet Hagen of Anderson, SC, and Jeanne Downer of Gladstone, MO; a son, Lyndon of Kansas City, MO; 25 grandchildren; 37 great-grandchildren; 14 great-great grandchildren; a brother, George (Jean) Huffey of Waterville; and four sisters, Greta Lockhart of Brownsville, MN; Leatrice McEvilly of Caledonia, MN, Esther Enyart of Texas, and Lotus (Barton) of Caledonia, MN.

She was preceded in death by three brothers, Lloyd Huffey, Vinton Huffey, and Vernon Huffey; a sister, Merle Schultz; three children, Ronald, Sharon Paulsen and Richard; a son-in-law, Bob Hagen; and four grandsons, Brian Brown, Derek Clemen, Eric Rule, and Andrew Harris.
Services were held at 10 a.m. Saturday, October 8, 2010 at St.Paul's Lutheran Church,Readlyn, Iowa, with burial in Waterloo Memorial Park Cemetery, Waterloo. Public visitation from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Kaiser-Corson Funeral Home was held on October 7, 2010 and for an hour before services Saturday at the church.

Shirley enjoyed fishing, traveling, painting with oils, restoring furniture, bowling, crocheting, cooking, playing Scrabble, and crossword puzzles. She enjoyed all types of music, especially Bluegrass, but mostly Shirley enjoyed spending time with her family.

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