Submitted by: Jack L. Clayton

Source: The Leader Union: Thursday, April 25, 1985

Verna Marie Brown, 84 , of Vandalia died at 7 a.m. Tuesday April 23, 1985, in Memorial Medical Center, Springfield. Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday in Miller funeral Home, Vandalia, with Dr. Archie Brown officiating. Burial will be in Fairlawn Cemetery. Visitation is from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday. Memorials: Fayette County Heart Fund Mrs. Brown was born Nov. 27, 1900 in Fayette County, daughter of William and Julia Buckmaster Sloat. She was a retired practical nurse and manager of Fayette County Nursing Home. She married James Hall. He preceeded her in death. She married Warren Sperry. He preceeded her in death. She married George Brown in 1952, and he died in 1974. Surviving are her daughters, Mrs. Melbourne (Vivian) Clayton of Des Moines, Iowa, Mrs. John (Pearl) Woodward of Goshen, Mass., and Mrs. Floyd (Ileen) Bennett of Decatur; two stepsons; two stepdaughters; 13 grandchildren; several great-grandchildren; and several great-great-grandchildren. Two sons, three brothers, and two sisters preceeded her in death.