Obit: Brown, Gladys (1890-1981)

Contact: Kathleen E. Englebretson
Email: kathy@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Brown, Moore, Gaetz

---Source: Marshfield News-Herald (4 May 1981)

Brown, Gladys Mae (7 July 1890 - 1 May 1981)

ABBOTSFOSRD - Mrs. Gladys Mae Brown, 90, Route 1, died Friday at Colonial House of Colby.

The funeral will be Tuesday at Maurine Funeral Home. The Rev. Robert L. Everhard of First Presbyterian Church is to officiate. Abbotsford Public Cemetery will be the burial site.

The former Gladys Mae Moore was born July 7, 1890 in the town of Hull to Mr. and Mrs. Obed Moore Sr. She and Charley L. Brown were married January 1, 1906 by the Rev. Charles P. Andrews in Abbotsford. The couple farmed in the town of Hull.

Surviving are one son, Richard M. of Abbotsford; six grandchildren; three great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren. Her husband died in 1964 and a daughter, Mrs. William (Myrtle) Gaetz, died May 7, 1971.

Mrs. Brown and her husband observed their 55th wedding anniversary in 1961.