Wanda Brown

Wanda Fern Brown, 85 passed away on March 4, 2012 in Decatur, Texas.

Funeral Services will be at 10:00 a.m., Thursday, March 8, 2012 at Marshall and Marshall Funeral Directors Chapel in Whitney with Rev. Charles Hendershot officiating. Interment will be at 3:00 p.m. Thursday at Nimrod Cemetery at Nimrod, Texas in Eastland County. Visitation will be from 6 - 8 p.m.,Wednesday at the funeral home.

Wanda Fern Brown was born on December 28, 1926 in Cisco, Texas and was the youngest child of George W. and Annie Burnette.

She and her husband, George Allen Brown, Jr. met in their senior year of high school and married that summer on July 30, 1944. After George served a stint in the US Navy during World War II, they settled down in Cisco to raise a family, becoming the parents of two sons, Bobby and Gregg.

They moved many times due to George’s work with Southwestern Bell Telephone Company. But in the early 1970's they decided to build a retirement home near Lake Whitney, where they resided from 1972 through 1992, when George passed away. Afterwards, Fern continued to live in Whitney for the next 15 years until selling her home and moving to the DFW area.

Fern had a stroke in August, 2010 and due to injuries from the stroke had been confined to the Senior Care Center in Decatur, until she passed away.

Fern originally accepted Christ and joined the Baptist Church, back when they lived in Cisco. Throughout her life, she was a Christian and in the last 35 years or so was member at First Baptist Church in Whitney.

She was preceded in death by her sister, Betty Jo Hiett, her brother, George W. “Pete” Burnette, and her husband, George Allen Brown, Jr.

Survivors include her sons, Bobby Brown and his wife, Carol, of Arlington and Gregg Brown and his wife, Skipper of Krum; six grandchildren, Lisa Noble of Keller, Danny Brown of Cincinnati, Ohio, Rebecca Sepulveda of Arlington, Matthew Brown of Arlington, Kristi Crisp of Hurst, Aaron Brown of Krum and seven great grandchildren.