Ruth Mott Brown Obit

Funeral services for Ruth Mott Brown will be conducted at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, February 28, 2009 at the Martin Funeral Home Chapel of Elk City with Rev. Kittle Fisher officiating. Interment will be in Red Hill Cemetery, Hammon, Roger Mills ounty, Oklahoma under the direction of Martin Funeral Home of Elk City.

Ruth Brown was born to Beecher and Clara Mott on March 16, 1926. She died on February 26, 2009, just a few days short of being 83, in a hospital in Oklahoma City. She was born and raised in Coinnecticut.

She met her husband, Merton David Brown, while he was attending Yale Divinity School in the mid-40's. Her career positions were as a pastor's wife in churches served in Oklahoma, and Lodi and Sacramento, California. After they moved to Orange, California she became a school secretary, where she retired from the Orange Unified School district in retirement, they spent several years traveling in their RV and doing volunteer work at U.S. National Park location. They settled in Elk City, in Juner of 1995, and Morton subsequently died in December 1996.

Ruth is survived by her son, James Russell Brown; and grandson, Joseph Russell Brown, both of Elk City; niece, Quita R. Bowels of Placerville, California; nephew, David E. Mott of Ontario, California; one counsin, friends and several relatives by marriage in the Elk City and Hammon areas.