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BROWN
Funeral services for Odessa Gatson Brown, 84, of
Bay City
,
Texas
will be held
Wednesday, February 20, 2002
at
11 a.m.
at
Mother
Zion
Missionary
Baptist
Church
with the Rev. Kenneth Griggs, pastor
and the Rev. Kenneth Bree officiating and elder Doyle Anderson eulogist.
Burial will follow at
Edison
Cemetery
in
Cedar
Lane,
Texas
. She will lie in state at Mother Zion
Missionary Baptist Church Wednesday morning from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Visitation will be Tuesday from 12 noon until 8 p.m., family will
receive friends from 7 to 8 p.m. in the chapel at Green's Mortuary.
Odessa Gatson Brown was born to the union of Moses Gatson and Narcis
Edison Gatson on
May 17, 1917
, in
Buckner
Prairie Cedar Lane,
Texas
. She passed away
Saturday, February 16, 2002
at the
Methodist
Hospital
in
Houston
,
Texas
.
She is survived by her loving and devoted son Cleophus M. Brown, Sr., of
Bay City; son-in-law, Kenneth Rutherford, Sr. of Bay City; 10
grandchildren, Linda Turk, Tim Brown, Cleophus Brown, Jr., Alvin Brown,
Paula Brown, Adrienne Price, Kenneth Rutherford, Jr., Deric Rutherford,
Benny Malveaux, Gerald Brown, 20 great-grandchildren and one great-great
grandchild; god daughter, Darlene and Hezekiah Brooks, Jr. and a host of
nieces, nephews, cousins and other relatives and friends.
Active pallbearers are to be J. D. Gatson, Leonard Gatson, Oscar Gatson,
Enoch Gatson, Jr., Henry Horton Chris Gatson, Moses Gatson, Donnie
Gatson, and Kenneth Monroe. Honorary are to be Tim Brown, Kenneth
Rutherford, Jr., Gerald Brown, Cleophus Brown, Jr., Alvin Brown, Deric
Rutherford, Kenneth Rutherford, Sr., Ron Price, Cleophus Brown, Sr.,
Hezekiah Brooks.
Green's Mortuary is in charge of all the arrangements. A00014B2002FB20
THE
BAY
CITY
TRIBUNE,
Wednesday,
February 20, 2002
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