IN MEMORY OF
STELLA V. BROWN
1907 ~ 2003
Stella
V. Brown, age 96, 429 West
Lexington Street, Harrodsburg, widow of Alamandus “Bud” Brown, entered into eternity on Friday, December 19, 2003
at the James
B. Haggin
Memorial Hospital
– Extended
Care Center
after a long illness.
Born September
23, 1907 in Mayo, Kentucky,
she was the daughter of the late Richard and Mary Meaux VanDyke.
She
attended West Side
High School, was
a retired homemaker, member of 1st Baptist Church
on Broadway where she served on the usher board, where she was head
usher for several years, served as member and President of the Improvement
Club, was a member of the Kitchen Club and was a Kentucky Colonel.
Survivors
include: one daughter, Frances True Short, Harrodsburg; two grandchildren,
Christopher Milo Short and Lolita Denise Short, both of Harrodsburg;
two nieces, Mrs. Lorraine Bell, Lexington
and Mrs. Mary Bradshaw, Harrodsburg; three nephews, Stanley VanDyke,
Harrodsburg, Curry Taylor, Lexington, and William Linton, Lancaster,
and a host of great nieces, nephews cousins and friends. She also helped
raise four children, Mrs. Lois Flowers, Nadine Brown, William Allen
Thompson all of Cincinnati, Ohio
and Charles Graves of Harrodsburg,
KY.
Funeral
services were conducted 1:00
pm Tuesday, December 23rd at 1st Baptist Church
by Elder J.D. Short, III and Brother Virgil Hill. Burial was in the
Maple Grove Cemetery (In the OLD Section).
Pallbearers
were Leon VanDyke, Jr., George Childs, Jr.,
Curry Taylor, Samuel Wheat, Leroy A. Young Jr., and William Allen Thompson.
Honorary bearers were Kenneth and Scott Jones, James Thurman, Keith
Walker, and Paul Parks.
Visitation was Monday,
December 22nd from
6 until 8 pm and
after 8:30 am Tuesday until the hour of service
at the Church. Arrangements
were entrusted to Parks Funeral Home, Inc. of Harrodsburg. KY.
