TERREBONNE and LAFOURCHE Parishes, La.

OBITUARIY for BROWN, DORIS (HAWKINS)    

Submitted by: Louis Lavedan

Published in Houma Today & The Daily Comet from Mar. 20 to Mar. 21, 2014

Died: Monday, March 17, 2014

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BROWN, DORIS (HAWKINS)  

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Doris Hawkins Brown, 84, a native of Terrebonne Parish and resident of Houma, 
died Monday, March 17, 2014. 

Visitation will be from 9 a.m. until funeral time Saturday at First Corinthian 
Baptist Church. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the church, 

with burial in Southdown Cemetery. 

She is survived by her sons, Joseph C. (Sharanda) Brown Jr., Melvin Brown Sr., 
and James Brown, all of Houma; daughters, Marsha B. Sept, of Baker, Gail M. 
Taylor, of Houma, Martha A. Brown, of Columbus, Ohio, Hazel B. Wallace, of Ft. 
Sill, Okla., and Doris Brown Young, of Nausa, N.H.; brothers, Harold Hawkins 
Sr. and Lionel Hawkins, of Houma, and Dolton F. Hawkins, of Chicago, Ill.; 
sister, Neomi Poindexter, of Houma; 24 grandchildren; and 17 great-
grandchildren. 

She was preceded in death by her husband, Joseph Brown Sr.; parents, Jimmie and 
Hazel Aitkens Hawkins; sons, John and Dalton Brown; and brothers, Eddie Hawkins 
Sr. and Jimmie K. Hawkins Jr. 

Gertrude Geddes Willis Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. 

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