Rella Marie Brown, 79, departed this life on September 11, 2014, to join Ollie Brown, her husband of 47 years. Marie is survived by her five children, Lannie Brown, Patricia Smith, Valerie Clinkenbeard, Judy Henderson and Larissa Ricketts; her four grandchildren, Bianca Henderson, April Hall, Brandon Smith and Yancey Smith; nine great-grandchildren, Ben, Brayden, Chrissi, Chloe, Mac, Zeb, Peyton, Olivia and Skylar; and four sisters, Ruth May, Ella Grubbs, Linda White and Conita Rivers.
Marie was born June 2, 1935, second of seven children born to Charlie and Mary Taylor of Morgan County. She was preceded in death by her parents; sister Roma; and brother, James Robert. On June 6, 1953, four days after turning 18, Marie married Ollie Brown of Valhermoso Springs with whom she produced five children and 47 vegetable gardens (one for each year of marriage). She was famous for her potato salad and chocolate gravy and firmly believed coke and candy bars were necessities of life. Her family members pray her heaven is filled with her favorite things: her loved ones who have gone before her, gospel music, flowers, quilts, vienna sausages, scratch-off lottery tickets and yard sales.
Visitation will be tonight, September 13, 2014, from 6 to 8 at Peck Funeral Home. Funeral will be Sunday, September 14, 2014, at 1:30 p.m. in the chapel officiated by her daughter, Patricia Smith with burial at Valhermoso Holiness Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Brayden, Ben, Bianca, April, Brandon, Yancey, Stefan and Christopher.
