In loving memory of
Emmerett L. Brown
April 13, 1917 - August 7, 2009
FOREST CITY - Emmerett L. Brown, 92, of Forest City, formerly of Coulter, died Friday (August 7, 2009) at Forest Plaza Assisted Living in Forest City.
Memorial services will be held 11 A.M., Monday at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Forest City with Rev. Barb Spaulding officiating. Her body was donated to the University of Iowa College of Medicine.
Visitation will be held one hour prior to services at the church. Petersen Lund Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Emmerett Leone Brown, the daughter of Embert and Emma (Satre) Madson, was born April 13, 1917 at Stanhope. She was baptized and confirmed at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Stanhope and graduated from Stanhope High School. She continued her education at Waldorf College in Forest City and then taught school in Webster City, Cooper and New Sharon. On October 10, 1942, she was married to Howard Brown in Ontario, Calif. Howard was stationed at the Army Air Corps base in Ontario during WW II. After his honorable discharge, they moved to Coulter where they raised their family and owned and operated Brown's Grocery Store. After Howard passed away in 1982, Emmerett continued to live in Coulter until 1992, when she moved to Forest City. In October of 2008, she became a resident of Forest Plaza Assisted Living.
She is survived by her children, Jeannine (Mike) Tweed of Thompson, Diane Brown of Minneapolis, MN and David Brown of Portsmouth, NH; two grandsons, Travis (Heather) Tweed of West Des Moines and Daris Tweed of Denver, CO; a sister, Orene Docken of Decorah; two sisters-in-law, Maxine Madson of Inver Grove Heights, MN and Phyllis Madson of Bloomington, MN; and several nieces and nephews.
Emmerett was preceded in death by her husband; parents; brothers, Clifton, Ingram and Norman Madson; sister, Sigrid Mayer; a niece, Sigrid Mount; and an infant brother.