(Mary) Lorena Brown (1920-2007)
BROWN, RAMESBOTHOM, NEVILLE, BEAM, PETERSON, FRY, PARKER, CREWS
Posted By: Nevada Journal
Date: 1/11/2008 at 06:45:52
NEVADA JOURNAL, Nevada, Story County, Iowa, Thursday, January 10, 2008.
(Mary) Lorena Brown, 87, of Nevada, died Saturday, December 29, 2007 at Story County Medical Center of complications from a stroke suffered on November 26, 2007. Funeral services were held on Wednesday, January 2, 2008 at 2:00 p.m. at Stevens Memorial Chapel in Ames with Pastor David Lincoln and Elder Dick Judson officiating. Burial followed in Nevada Municipal Cemetery.
Lorena Brown was born on November 12, 1920 in Westfield, Iowa to Roy and Caroline Mary (Neville) Ramesbothom. She grew up in the Sioux City area. She graduated from Oak Park Academy in Nevada in 1939. She returned to Sioux City and married Floyd Brown on February 21, 1942. They moved to Nevada in 1952.
She was employed as an LPN at Ames and Nevada nursing homes until her retirement in 1982. She loved gardening, feeding her birds, cooking, bread baking, reading, quilting, and making crazy quilts for her entire family. She was an active, dedicated member of Nevada Seventh-Day Adventist Church working with the children's department and community service. She had a beautiful alto voice and sang duets with Marilyn Lounsberry at church for many years. She loved and spoiled her grandchildren and great grandchildren and always had a full cookie jar.
She is survived by her husband, Floyd Brown of Nevada; three daughters, Barbara Beam of Lincoln, NE, Bonnie (Ray) Peterson of Gilbert, and Arlene (Mike) Fry of Nevada; nine grandchildren; sixteen great grandchildren; one brother, Lynn (Marilyn) Ramesbothom of Clarence, Missouri; and two sisters, Ruby (Win) Parker of Hood River, Oregon and Ruth Crews of Bowdon, ND.
She was preceded in death by her parents; one brother, Elwyn "Bud" Ramesbothom; and a great granddaughter, Alissa Peterson.
A memorial fund has been established in her name.
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