Sarah Agnes (Junkin) Brown (1939)

BLACK, BRATTON, BROWN, FLYNN, JUNKIN, LOWTHER, ROE, WATSON, WILLIAMS

Posted By: Ida Morse
Date: 9/22/2006 at 20:17:59

Earlham Library Obituaries
Earlham, Iowa
September 1939

Sarah Agnes Junkin was born January 19, 1855 in Warren county, Illinois, and passed away September 5, 1939, age 85 years, seven months, 16 days. She was named for her two grandmothers, Sarah Black Lowther and Agnes Bratton Junkin. She attended the “Junkin School” near her country home and later went to Monmouth College, a United Presbyterian institution two years. She taught school until her marriage to Marion Wilson Brown, January 22, 1874, near Monmouth, Illinois. Mr. And Mrs. Brown moved to Madison county, Iowa, immediately after their marriage residing in Winterset, until the spring of 1876 when they moved to a farm joining the “Shuck” school house eight miles south of Dexter.

In 1888 the family moved to Dexter where they resided until 1936 when Mrs. Brown disposed of the home and went to Clermont, Florida, to live with her daughter, Mrs. F. B. Roe. Mrs. Brown’s husband passed away from this life in Dexter, July 4th, 1922.

On August 15th of this year she accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Roe to their summer home in Ashville, North Carolina, and her health had been good until within a week of her passing away when she showed indications of a weak heart. In the early morning hours of September 5th, she passed quietly away.

Mrs. Brown was a good mother and neighbor. Her sympathetic understanding of the joys and sorrows of others make her an ever welcome, guest at the home of relatives and friends. She possessed an unusual memory and an excellent knowledge of world affairs due to her extensive reading ability and keen power of observation. Ever happy and kind, willing to aid others and tolerant toward all, her family and a host of friends will miss her wise counsel and cheerful personality.

She had a strong faith in her Saviour and became a member of the United Presbyterian church in Pitzer, and transferred her membership to the same denomination in Dexter in 1888 and later when this congregation merged with the Presbyterians her membership was transferred to this congregation with the others. Through the last few difficult years of her life and the country, her faith never wavered and she firmly believed “I Know That My Redeemer Livith.”

The surviving members of the immediate family are a son Roy Rankin Brown of Oak Park, Illinois; Maude M. Brown and Bernice Williams of Whittier, California; Mrs. Cliff Roe of Clermont, Florida, all of whom are here today. There are also surviving three brothers, J. H and Frank Junkin of Earlham; and Grant Junkin of Humboldt, Kansas; and one sister Mrs. Effie Watson of Monmouth, Illinois. A sister, Mrs. Wm. Flynn and a brother, George Junkin passed away within the past two years. She has six grandsons and one granddaughter and four great grandchildren who are saddened by her passing away.

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