submitted by Melva Taylor
The Daily Gazette, Sterling-Rock Falls, Illinois
June 1, 1959 - Monday, pg 2 col. 2
The Daily Gazette, Sterling-Rock Falls, Illinois
June 1, 1959 - Monday, pg 2 col. 2
MINNIE BELL (France) BROWN
Mrs. Minnie Brown, Prophetstown, Dies
Prophetstown: - Funeral services for Mrs. Minnie Brown, 86, were conducted Sunday afternoon at the Gardner Funeral Chapel the Rev. Nelson Chasteen, pastor of the Congregational Church, officiating. Burial was in the Riverside Cemetery.
Mrs. Brown died Friday at the Hammond-Henry Hospital in Geneseo.
Flowers were cared for by Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Parker and Mr. and Mrs. Dean Sandrock.
Pallbearers were grandsons, Monroe Law, John Conboy, Leo Froeliger, Terry Brown, Donald Brown and William E. McKenna.
Mrs. V. R. Olmstead and Mrs. Harry Eshelman sang, accompanied by V. R. Olmstead at the organ.
Minnie Bell Brown was born March 13, 1873 in Tampico township, the daughter of Solomon and Margaret France, and attended the Highland school. She was married to John Brown of Hume township in Morrison in 1891. She spent her entire lifetime in the Prophetstown community.
Survivors are two sons, Sherman J. Brown, Sterling; and Monroe Brown, Prophetstown; four daughters, Mrs. Flossie McKenna, Lyndon; Mrs. Gladys Froeliger, Prophetstown; Mrs. Beatrice Redshaw, Prophetstown and Mrs. Lenora Meek, Rock Falls; 32 grandchildren; 60 great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, who died in 1941, one son Ernest and one daughter, Mrs. Delores Conboy, two brothers and four sisters.
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