This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: WandaPurcell13 Surnames: Brown, Matt, Bowels Classification: obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.oklahoma.counties.rogermills/8988/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Funeral services for Ruth Mott Brown will be conducted at 10 a.m. Saturday February 28, 2009 at the Martin Funeral Home Chapel of Elk City with Rev. Kittle Fisher officiating. Interment will be in Red Hill Cemetery, Hammon, Roger Mills ounty, Oklahoma under the direction of Martin Funeral Home of Elk City. Ruth Brown was born to Beecher and Clara Mott on March 16, 1926. She died on February 26, 2009, just a few days short of being 83, in a hospital in Oklahoma City. She was born and raised in Coinnecticut. She met her husband, Morton Brown, while he was attending Yale Divinity School in the mid-40's. Her career positions were as a pastor's wife in churches served in Oklahoma, and Lodi and Sacramnento, California. After they moved to Orange, California she became a school secretary, where she retired from the Orange Unified School district in retirement, they spent several years traveling in their RV and doing volunteer work at U.S. National Park location. They settled in Elk City, in Juner of 1995, and Morton subsequently died in December 1996. Ruth is survived by her son, James Russell Brown, and grandson, Joseph Russell Brown, both of Elk City, niece Quita R. Bowels of Placerville, California, nephew, David E. Mott of Ontario, California; a cousin: friends and several relatives by marriage in the Elk City and Hammon areas. Elk City Daily News, Elk City, OK 27-Feb-2009 Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.