Lula E. Brown

Lula E. Brown MUSCATINE, Iowa--Lula E. Brown, 86, of New Boston, Illinois, died on Thursday, January 5, 2012, at the All American Care Center, Muscatine. Funeral Service will be 11 a.m. on Monday, January 9, 2012, at the New Boston United Methodist Church. Burial will take place in the New Boston Cemetery. Visitation will be from 3 to 6 p.m. on Sunday, January 8, 2012, at the church. Memorials may be left for the church. Dennison Funeral Home, Aledo is handling arrangements. Lula was born on November 24, 1925, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the daughter of Robert Samuel and Elsie Wright Ward. On May 1, 1942, she married Earl Brown Sr. in Seattle, Washington. He preceded her in death on January 30, 2000. Lu was a homemaker, raising not only her own children but all those in the neighborhood. She enjoyed gardening and embroidery. She had been a member of the New Boston American Legion Auxiliary, Royal Neighbors of America and the New Boston Methodist Church. Those left to cherish her memory are her children, Earl Brown Jr. and wife, Jeri, of Alexis, Illinois, Michael Brown of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Linda Perkins of New Boston, Illinois, Nancy Meincke and husband, Larry, of New ...[more]

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ton, Illinois, and Roxann Nelson of Keithsburg, Illinois; 11 grandchildren; numerous great and great great-grandchildren; a foster son, Robert James of Keithsburg, Illinois, and a brother, Arthur Ward of Vista Verde, California. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; a daughter, Charlotte Fuller; two grandsons, Tim Terrill and Dean Nelson; two sisters; two brothers; and a half-brother.