BROWN, Velva Mae (WATERS)

BROWN, WATERS, ARTHUR, DEXTER, NAUMAN

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 9/18/2016 at 16:03:34

Obituary ~ Velva Mae (Waters) Brown
May 10, 1929 ~ February 27, 2004

The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
March 01, 2004

MASON CITY -- Velva M. Brown, 74, of 741 S. Illinois Ave., Mason City, died Friday (Feb. 27, 2004) at the Muse-Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit in Mason City.

Memorial services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday at the Wayside Chapel of the First United Methodist Church, 119 S. Georgia Ave., Mason City, with the Rev. Jim Stiles officiating. Inurnment will be in Memorial Park Cemetery in Mason City.

The family will greet friends one hour prior to services at the church on Monday.

Hogan Bremer Moore Colonial Chapel, 126 Third St. N.E., Mason City, is in charge of the arrangements.

Velva Mae, the daughter of Harry and Eda (Arthur) Waters, was born May 10, 1929, in Alta Vista. She lived in Alta Vista until the age of 5 and then moved with her family to Marble Rock. She received her education from Marble Rock Consolidated School, graduating in 1946. She then attended Cornell College.

She began teaching in a one-room schoolhouse in Charles City while still taking summer classes.

She was united in marriage to John Brown on Oct. 19, 1952, in Osage, and to this union three sons were born, David, Steven, and Mike.

In 1965, Velva moved to Cedar Rapids. She worked for Hawkeye Area Community Action and then for the Lynn County Juvenile Center. She then moved back to Mason City and worked for Handicap Village and Francis Lauer for several years until retirement.

Velva was a member of the First United Methodist Church.

Velva's greatest love was spending time with her children and grandchildren. She was a very generous and giving person who was always helping others.

Velva is survived by three sons, Steven Brown, Michael Brown and his wife, Ann, and David Brown and his wife, Cynthia, all of Mason City; a foster daughter, Teresa Dexter and her husband, Kris, of Moses Lake, Wash.; seven grandchildren, Abby, Lucy, Maggie, Jefferson, Matthew, Jacob and Serina; four great-grandchildren, Madalyn, Jack, Simon and Grayce; a brother, Tom Waters, of Independence, Mo., and a sister, Edith Nauman, Mason City.

She was preceded in death by her parents; brothers, Arthur, Lloyd, Herbert and Merle; sisters, Juanita, Dorothy and Elsie, and one niece.

Hogan-Bremer-Moore Colonial Chapel, (641) 423-2372.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, September of 2016