Viola Pearl Brown 1934-2004

BROWN, PARIS, CARPENTER, HITSMAN, MCPHEE

Posted By: David Hellwege (email)
Date: 9/25/2006 at 18:58:01

Viola Pearl Brown, 69, died Jan. 8, 2004, at Capri Care Center in Phoenix, Ariz.

She was born June 1, 1934, in Fraser, the daughter of Ernest R. and Carrie Ellen (Paris) Carpenter. She married Eugene Hitsman June 24, 1950. He died in December of 1971 and she married Carl Brown in 1973.

She lived in the Fraser and Boone areas until moving to Phoenix, Ariz., with her husband and children in the 1960s.

Survivors include one daughter, Theresa McPhee of Glendale, Ariz.; two sons, Michael Hitsman and Kevin Hitsman of Phoenix, Ariz.; five grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; one brother and sister-in-law, Ray and Nancy Carpenter of Boone; and two nephews and three nieces.

She was preceded in death by her first husband; her parents; one brother, Ernest (Buddy) Carpenter; and one sister, Mary Ellen Carpenter).

Burial was in Rest Haven Park Cemetery West, Glendale, Ariz.

Heritage Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

[Source: BNR via the WWW; originally published Jan. 19, 2004.]