Whitesell-Somers Family Web Project - Person Sheet
Whitesell-Somers Family Web Project - Person Sheet
BirthAug 28, 1915 [9348]
DeathOct 5, 1986, High Point, Guilford County, North Carolina [9348], [9320]
BurialAlamance Memorial Park, 4039 S Church St, Alamance County, North Carolina [9348]
MotherMattie Eleanor RUMLEY (1891-1976)
Spouses
BirthJan 24, 1918, Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina [9320], [9345]
DeathJun 8, 2007, Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina [9320], [9345]
BurialAlamance Memorial Park, 4039 S Church St, Alamance County, North Carolina [9320], [9345]
OccupationHomemaker [9320]
FatherOnnie Barrett SUTTON Sr. (1894-1972)
MotherMary Ida PAYNE (1895-1933)
Obituary Online notes for Lillie Elizabeth (Spouse 1)
6/10/2007

Mrs. Lillie  Elizabeth Sutton Brown 


    GIBSONVILLE — Mrs. Lillie  Elizabeth Sutton Brown , 89, of 3121 Huffine Mill Road, died Friday, June 8, 2007, at Beacon Place after several years of failing health.
    A native of Guilford County, she was the daughter of the late Onnie Sutton  and the late Mary Ida Payne Sutton . She was married to the late James Vadis Brown , who died in 1987. She was a homemaker and a member of Twin Oaks Church.
    Mrs. Brown  is survived by a daughter, Bernice B. Woodlief and her husband, James, of Elon; six sons, Levon Brown  and his wife, Christine, of Gibsonville, Larry Brown  of Gibsonville, Willard Brown  and his wife, Carolyn, of Gibsonville, Curtis Lee Brown  of Greensboro, Boyd Brown  and his wife, Donna, of Rockville, Ind., and David Brown  and his wife, Janice, of Whitsett; 37 grandchildren; 27 great-grandchildren; three sisters, Marie Gerringer of Elon, Alene Warren of Burlington and Mary Lou Long of Clearwater, Fla.; and one brother, Lenneous Sutton  of Burlington. She was preceded in death by her husband; parents; a son, Donald Ray Brown ; two sisters, Doris Wilhit and Opel Jones; and four brothers, the Rev. Thomas Sutton , O.B. Sutton , Garland Sutton  and Gilmer Sutton .
    The funeral service will be conducted at 11 a.m. Monday, June 11, 2007, at Twin Oakes Church by the Rev. Tommy Scronce and Dustin Brown . Interment will follow at Alamance Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 this afternoon at Lowe Funeral Home and Crematory and other times at the home of the son, David Brown , 1730-A Rock Creek Dairy Road.
    Memorials may be made to Twin Oaks Church, 5935 Burlington Road, McLeansville, N.C. 27301 or to Hospice at Beacon Place, 2500 Summit Ave., Greensboro, N.C. 27405.
    Condolences may be sent to the family at
info@lowefuneralhome.com [9320]
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