Mrs. Melonee Marsh Brown

Sorrells Funeral Home - Geneva

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Date: Jul 01 2014 5:32 PM

Mrs. Abbie Jane Melonee Marsh Brown of Curry Ferry Road (Izagora Community) Bonifay, Florida went home to be with the Lord Tuesday, July 1, 2014.  She was 91.

Funeral services will be 10:00 a.m. Friday, July 4, 2014 in the chapel of Sorrells Funeral Home in Geneva with Bro. Chuck Grantham officiating.  Burial will follow in the East Pittman Freewill Baptist Church Cemetery with Sorrells Funeral Home and Crematory of Geneva directing.  The family will receive friends at the funeral home Thursday, July 3, 2014, from 6 until 8 p.m.

Flowers will be accepted or memorial contributions may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association.

Mrs. Brown was born August 13, 1922, in Holmes County, Florida to the late Johnny Wayne and Abbie Jane Gilley Marsh.  She enjoyed the outdoors; working in her flowers and her vegetable garden, but she had a passion for fishing.  She loved her family dearly and was a very devoted mother and grandmother.  She always met you with a smile and a laugh and always made you feel good about yourself.  She will be greatly missed by everyone who knew her.

In addition to her parents her husband, Hubert Wilson Brown, a grandson, Robert Brown, as well as seven siblings, Claudie Harris, Lorene Harris, Dois King, Audie, Dowling, Huie and Dewey Marsh, all preceded her in death.

Survivors include six children, Fred Brown (Diane) of Bonifay, Wilson Brown (Ruth) of Westville,  Janice French (Elton), Lawrence Brown, Herbert Brown (Roxanne) all of  Bonifay, Vivian Wike (Kenneth) of Geneva; one sister, Lois Dillworth (Joe) of Gainsville, FL; 18 grandchildren; 26 great-grandchildren; 10 great-great-grandchildren; several special nieces, nephews, other extended family friends.

 

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