Champaign County OhArchives Obituaries.....Brown, Florence Jean May 10, 2008 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Karen Johnson-Heber gapeachprtnerz@bellsouth.net December 25, 2010, 10:39 pm Piqua Daily Call ST. PARIS - Florence Jean Brown, 83, of St. Paris passed away at 8:50 p.m. Thursday in Piqua Manor. She was bom July 20,1924, in Fletcher, the daughter of the late Samuel E. and Edna L. (Marshall) Pond. I On Oct. 21,1942, she married Harold E. Brown (deceased in 1997) and together they raised two children, Rita (Howard) Wibel of St. Paris and Dale Brown, who passed away in 1995. Jean I also is survived by five grandchildren, Kellee Wibel of St. Paris, Jason (Tabatha) Wibel of St. Paris, Mark (Missy) Brown of Troy, Aaron (Leah) Brown of St. Paris, and Scott Brown of Springfield. She was a proud great-grandmother to Ellia, Amanda, Logan, Marleigh, Regan and Myles. A sister, Mrs. Morris (Lois) Phares of St. Paris also survives Jean. In addition to her parents, husband and son, she was preceded in death by one brother, Herman Pond. Jean was a graduate of Christiansburg-Jackson High School and a member of the St. Paris United Methodist Church. She retired on July 1, 1987, from Ohio Apiaries Co-Op of St. Paris. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Monday in the Atkins-Shively Funeral Home, St. Paris, with the Rev. Doug Upton of the St. Paris United Methodist Church and the Rev. Dr. James VanZile of the First Baptist Church presiding. Burial will follow in Spring Grove Cemetery. There will be two hours of visitation prior to the funeral service beginning at 11 a.m. in the funeral home on Monday. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Johnson-St. Paris EMS, Box 271, St. Paris, OH, the Johnson-St. Paris Fire Department, Box 648, St. Paris, OH 43072, or to Miami County Hospice, P.O. Box 502, Troy, OH 45373. Envelopes will be available at the funeral home. Additional Comments: photograph of Florence on Original copy of obituary File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/champaign/obits/b/bronne2322ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb