Dorcas Nellie (Bell) Brown (1929)

BELL, BROWN, DARNES, DORRANCE, FURROW, GILLOGLY, HOUSTON, MILLER, POWELL

Posted By: Linda Brittain
Date: 1/25/2006 at 19:19:54

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, August 15, 1929
Page 6

Death of Mrs. Robert Brown

Mrs. Robert Brown, of Patterson, died Tuesday at the Methodist hospital in Des Moines. Death occurred while Mrs. Brown was undergoing an operation at the hospital. She was 62 years old.

Mrs. Brown was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Abner Bell of Patterson. For a number of years the family lived in the Worthington neighborhood and then moved to the Crossley farm, east of Patterson.

Short funeral services will be held today at the Tidrick funeral home and services and burial will be conducted by Rev. A. P. Keast, at Worthington at 2:30 o'clock. Mrs. Brown was the mother of Carl Brown, of Winterset.
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The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, August 15, 1929
Page 10

Mrs. Robert Brown

Dorcas Nellie, daughter of Abner and Mary Bell, was born near Patterson on September 25, 1866, and passed away in a Des Moines hospital August 6, 1929, being 62 years, 10 months and 11 days old.

On January 25, 1896, she was united in marriage to Robert J. Brown, of near Earlham. While founding the new home the couple joined the Methodist church of Booneville. Mr. and Mrs. Brown made their home in Madison county, living in the Worthington neighborhood for many years. In the last few years they made their home on a farm east of Patterson.

Mrs. Brown had for one of her chief fields of service the desire to take care of little homeless children. Zada Furrow and Frank and Clarence Powell were reared in the home. Within the past year Margaret and LeRoy Brown, eight and six years old, had come to make their home with Mr. and Mrs. Brown.

Another realm of service in which Mrs. Brown took delight was the work of the church, through its various departments of missions and Sunday school.

She was a good homebuilder, a loyal companion, devoted mother and helpful friend and neighbor.

She leaves to mourn her death the husband, one son, Carl of Winterset; the two adopted children, two brothers, George Bell of Findley, Ohio, and Ralph Bell of Patterson; five sisters, Mrs. Rena Dorrance of Fairmount, Nebraska; Mrs. George Darnes of Harper, Kansas; Mrs. Ross Houston of Haywood, Montana, and Mrs. James Gillogly and Mrs. F. M. Miller of Patterson.

Short funeral services were held at Tidrick's funeral home Thursday, August 8th, at 1 o'clock, and at the Worthington M. E. church at 2:30 o'clock, by the Rev. A. P. Keast, assisted by Rev. Frank Moore, of Patterson. Burial was made in the Worthington cemetery.

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