BROWN, Alma Line: Died 1982

BROWN, AYERS, STILLWAGON, EPPERS, BAXTER, YOUNG, SICKLES, DEROSEAR, CROSS , WILSON

Posted By: Volunteer: Sherri
Date: 8/15/2021 at 14:48:11

**Handwritten: 4 Mar '82 Leader

ALMA L. BROWN

Alma Line Brown, 73, of Fort Madison, a former Farmington resident, died February 21 at Keokuk Area Hospital. She had been in failing health two years and seriously ill six weeks.

Mrs. Brown was born September 18, 1908 at Farmington. She had lived in Fort Madison since 1924. She was a former employee of the W.A. Shaeffer Pen Co. in Fort Madison and retired in 1970 as an employee of the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant. She was of the Protestant faith.

On June 13, 1924, at Keosauqua, she was married to Leo Lester Brown. He died January 6, 1982.

Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Helen Ayers, Mrs. Jim (Louise) Stillwagon and Mrs. Jack (Pauline) Eppers, all of Fort Madison; two half-brothers, Wade Baxter, Alexandria, Missouri, and Dick Young, Omaha, Nebraska; two sisters, Mrs. Earl (Alta) Sickles and Edith DeRosear, both of Fort Madison; and seven grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.

Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by a brother a sister. Her parents were John and Emma Cross Wilson.

The funeral was held Tuesday, February 25, at 10 a.m. in the Barr Memorial Chapel at Fort Madison. The Rev. Myron Brockmeyer officiated. Burial was in Oakland Cemetery.

Source: "Scrapbook 1981 - 1985", Pg. 91,
Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, Van Buren Co., IA