To request a copy of this photo for your own personal use, please contact our state coordinator. If you are not a family member or the original photographer — please refrain from copying or distributing this photo to other websites.
Thank you for visiting the Arkansas Gravestone Photo Project. On this site you can upload gravestone photos, locate ancestors and perform genealogy research. If you have a relative buried in Arkansas, we encourage you to upload a digital image using our Submit a Photo page. Contributing to this genealogy archive helps family historians and genealogy researchers locate their relatives and complete their family tree.
Submitted: 1/21/08 • Approved: 5/5/18 • Last Updated: 5/8/18 • R11211-G11210-S3
Virgil 21 Nov 1916 - 09 Dec 1999
Mary 13 Jan 1921 - 17 Mar 2001
Marriage: 12 Oct 1935
Mary Ellen "Jane" (Hibbard) Brown daughter of William N Hibbard and Mattie L. (Larrimore) Hibbard. Virgil Alford Brown the son of Joseph Alford Brown and Nettie Evia (Oldham) Brown.
Mary Ellen "Jane" Brown, born January 13, 1921 in Bloomer, Arkansas, died on March 14, 2001 at Arkansas Methodist Hospital in Paragould, Arkansas. She was a homemaker and a member of WCRC and the Center Hill Church of Christ.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Virgil A. Brown; her parents, William and Mattie Lairamore Hibbard; a sister, Ruby Waddell; three brothers, Buel, George, and Johnny; a son, Jerry; and one great granddaughter, Amber Ethridge.
She is survived by a daughter, Sharon Timperley of Fremont, Nebraska; four sons, Ancil of Ravenden, David of Belvidere, Illinois; Allen and Michael of Paragould; three brothers, Marshal of Lodi, California, Bill of O'Kean, and Leon of Walnut Ridge, and a sister, Betty Holder of Paragould. Jane leaves 15 grandchildren and 22 great grandchildren.
The funeral will be held at House-Gregg Funeral Home in Walnut Ridge with Michael Cox officiating. Burial will follow at the Old Military Cemetery at Sedgwick, Arkansas. Pallbearers will be Tony Greer, Brandon Greer, David Brown, Travis Gatlin, Aaron, Joshua, and Joey Ethridge.
Memorials may be given to Women for Crowley's Ridge College "Sara Bills Endowment Scholarship Fund" in lieu of flowers.
Obituary provided through House-Gregg Funeral Home archive Walnut Ridge, Lawrence County, Arkansas posted Mar 2001.
Contributed on 1/21/08 by denise.bratcher63
Email This Contributor
Suggest a Correction
Record #: 11211