© The Chickasha Express-Star 15 February 2005 Opal Mae [Taylor] Brown Graveside service for Opal M. Brown, 91, of Verden, Oklahoma, will be held at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 6, 2003, in the Rose Hill Cemetery, Chickasha, Oklahoma. Opal M. Brown was born May 9, 1911, in Verden, Oklahoma. She was a daughter of Rufus and Drusiller Taylor. She died Saturday, May 3, 2003, in Oklahoma City. Mrs. Brown was a seamstress for the Dixie Store and owned Brown's Cafe for many years with her husband Richard. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Verden. She was preceded in death by her husband Richard Brown, Sr., 1980; her parents; two sons Richard Brown, Jr., Jerry Brown; her daughter Anita Mae Brown and granddaughter Melanie Denise Brown; six sisters and four brothers; and infant daughter, Stephanie Dawn Brown. Survivors include: two sisters: Lid McVey of Verden, Vida Hair of Oklahoma City; granddaughter: Vicki Brown Davis of Oklahoma City; grandson: Gary Brown of Pauls Valley; granddaughter: Debi Milligan of Pauls Valley; four great grandchildren; daughter-in-law: Mary Brown Rhodes of Oklahoma City; numerous nieces and nephews. Interment will be in Rose Hill Cemetery, Chickasha, Oklahoma, under the direction of Sevier Funeral Home. |
© The Verden News Verden, Oklahoma Friday, 1 December 1933 Anita Mae Brown Died at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Brown, four miles northeast of town, Friday November 24, their daughter Anita Mae, age 3 years, 2 months and 17 days. A brief funeral service was held at the home Sunday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Ethridge of Apache. Many of the relatives and friends of the sorrowing family were present, and as they looked upon the sweet placid little body in its white casket and surrounded by beautiful and fragrant flowers - yet not more beautiful or pure than the little face within - their hearts swelled in sympathy for the bereaved family. But let us not think of little Anita Mae as dead, but as living; not as a flower that has withered, but as one transplanted, and touched by a Divine hand, is blooming in richer color and sweeter fragrance than those of earth. "There is no death! The stars go down To rise upon some fairer shore, as bright in Heaven's jeweled crown They shine forever more" |