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Alma Brown

d. April 22, 2012

Funeral services for Mrs. Alma Brown, 100, of Cookeville will be held Tuesday, April 24, at 11 a.m. in the Cookeville Chapel of Hooper-Huddleston & Horner Funeral Home. Interment will follow in Crest Lawn Cemetery. Bro. Clarence DeLoach and Bro. Jeremiah Tatum will officiate. Mrs. Brown died Sunday morning April 22, 2012 in the NHC of Cookeville. She was born November 4, 1911 in Jackson County, Tennessee to the late Hyton Howard and Mary Marjorie Bailey Brown. She was a homemaker and has been a member of Willow Avenue Church of Christ since 1957. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Fred Brown (who died February 24, 1982); her son-in-law, Fred Boswell; a foster son and his wife, Freed and Ruth Ledford Kincaid; granddaughter, Helen Kincaid Dennis; three sisters, Dixie Fox, Dorothy Lee, and Lyda Brown; her brother, Leo Brown; and three infant siblings. Survivors include her son and daughter-in-law, Roy & Frances Brown; daughter, Marjorie Brown Boswell, all of Cookeville; eight grandchildren, Karen & Karlin Treat, Tom & Becki Brown, Don & Jill Brown, Rosemary & Henry Burch, David & Sandy Brown, Elaine & Gary King, Julia & Bill Merry, and Ann & Tony Craighead; nineteen great grandchildren; four great-great grandchildren; two special nieces, Susan Dudney of Cookeville, and Ann Fox Cantrell of Mt. Juliet. Her family extends a special "thanks"� to caregivers: Melinda, Sonya, & Angie. Her grandsons and great-grandsons will serve as pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers are Wayne Cantrell, Paul Pippin, Ralph Bryant, Denny Richardson, L.B. Johnson, and George Dudney. The family will receive friends Monday from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. and Tuesday from 10 a.m. until service time at the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to East Tennessee School of Preaching, 6608 Beaver Ridge Road, Knoxville, TN 37931 or to Clarence and Eddie DeLoach Scholarship Fund at Freed Hardeman College, 158 E. Main St., Henderson, TN, 38340.

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Service Schedule

Past Services

Visitation

Monday, April 23, 2012

5:00 - 8:00 pm (Central time)

Cookeville Chapel of Hooper-Huddleston & Horner Funeral Home

59 North Jefferson Avenue, Cookeville, TN 38501

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Service

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Starts at 11:00 am (Central time)

Cookeville Chapel of Hooper-Huddleston & Horner Funeral Home

59 North Jefferson Avenue, Cookeville, TN 38501

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