1919
Charline
2017
Charline Hayes Brown
December 13, 1919 — February 9, 2017
Mary Charline Hayes Brown, 97, went to be with her Lord and Savior on February 9, 2017. She was born December 13, 1919 in Cotton Valley, Louisiana to Howard Reedy Hayes and Flora Sue Davis Hayes.
She attended Louisiana State University and earned a business degree in 1941. After graduation, she worked for her father in West Monroe at Hayes Lumber Company. During World War II, she met her future husband, Joseph Cecil Brown, Jr. at a party on Noe’s Ark. They were married September 30, 1945, after Joe returned from service as a bomber pilot in the Pacific. The couple moved to Georgia, and while he studied engineering at Georgia Tech, she worked in Marietta as an insurance adjuster for the Veteran's Administration.
They moved back to Monroe to raise a family in 1946. She was active in the Junior League, Fort Miro Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Entre Nous Book Club, and garden club. Coming from a family of gardeners, she grew roses, gladiolas, camellias and other flowers, planting to have flowers in every season.
Although she had a business degree, she loved poetry. While raising a family, she wrote poetry published in various magazines, newspapers, and anthologies, and contributed to a Pen Women book about Louisiana history. Her poems were published in the Southern Review, Lyric Louisiana and other publications. She published two collections of her poetry – the first in 1979. When she was 86 years old, she surprised her family with the second book of her poems as a Christmas gift. Many were familiar favorites, but there were also recently composed poems about her great-granddaughters. She was honored in 2014 by Pen Women’s northeast Louisiana branch as a founder in 1953 of the Louisiana State Society of Pen Women and of the local chapter.
Joe and Charline loved to dance, and for many years, on any given Friday they could be found on the dance floor of the Cork Room. They enjoyed Squadron reunions of the 13th Bomb Group of the Grim Reapers, and traveling the world together.
She had an unfailing love and kindness, and above all, a sterling character. She was disciplined, high-minded, self-effacing, and self-sacrificing.
She was predeceased by her husband, Joseph Cecil Brown, Jr.; her daughter, Susan Brown Thorn; and sisters, Nell Hayes Faulk and Helen Hayes Norris. She is survived by a son, Joseph Howard Brown; daughter, Terry Ann Brown; son-in-law, Bruce McReynolds Thorn; brother-in-law, Pascal Norris; granddaughters, Vera Thorn Munholland and husband Reyn, Cherrie Thorn Baker and husband James; great-grandchildren, Ariel, Faith, and Reed Munholland, and Lydia Baker; along with numerous nephews and nieces. The family would like to thank her loving caregivers, Joyce Young, Josie and Janice Blankenship, Danielle Charleston, Jeanette Brown, Courtney Gulley and others.
Funeral Services will be held at 2:00PM Sunday, February 12, 2017 in the chapel of Mulhearn Funeral Home, Monroe, LA with Rev. Warren Eckhardt officiating. Entombment will be held at Mulhearn Memorial Park Mausoleum. Visitation will be from 1:00PM until service time on Sunday.
Online Registry/Condolences: www.mulhearnfuneralhome.com
Mulhearn Funeral Home
Sterlington Road
Monroe, LA
She attended Louisiana State University and earned a business degree in 1941. After graduation, she worked for her father in West Monroe at Hayes Lumber Company. During World War II, she met her future husband, Joseph Cecil Brown, Jr. at a party on Noe’s Ark. They were married September 30, 1945, after Joe returned from service as a bomber pilot in the Pacific. The couple moved to Georgia, and while he studied engineering at Georgia Tech, she worked in Marietta as an insurance adjuster for the Veteran's Administration.
They moved back to Monroe to raise a family in 1946. She was active in the Junior League, Fort Miro Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Entre Nous Book Club, and garden club. Coming from a family of gardeners, she grew roses, gladiolas, camellias and other flowers, planting to have flowers in every season.
Although she had a business degree, she loved poetry. While raising a family, she wrote poetry published in various magazines, newspapers, and anthologies, and contributed to a Pen Women book about Louisiana history. Her poems were published in the Southern Review, Lyric Louisiana and other publications. She published two collections of her poetry – the first in 1979. When she was 86 years old, she surprised her family with the second book of her poems as a Christmas gift. Many were familiar favorites, but there were also recently composed poems about her great-granddaughters. She was honored in 2014 by Pen Women’s northeast Louisiana branch as a founder in 1953 of the Louisiana State Society of Pen Women and of the local chapter.
Joe and Charline loved to dance, and for many years, on any given Friday they could be found on the dance floor of the Cork Room. They enjoyed Squadron reunions of the 13th Bomb Group of the Grim Reapers, and traveling the world together.
She had an unfailing love and kindness, and above all, a sterling character. She was disciplined, high-minded, self-effacing, and self-sacrificing.
She was predeceased by her husband, Joseph Cecil Brown, Jr.; her daughter, Susan Brown Thorn; and sisters, Nell Hayes Faulk and Helen Hayes Norris. She is survived by a son, Joseph Howard Brown; daughter, Terry Ann Brown; son-in-law, Bruce McReynolds Thorn; brother-in-law, Pascal Norris; granddaughters, Vera Thorn Munholland and husband Reyn, Cherrie Thorn Baker and husband James; great-grandchildren, Ariel, Faith, and Reed Munholland, and Lydia Baker; along with numerous nephews and nieces. The family would like to thank her loving caregivers, Joyce Young, Josie and Janice Blankenship, Danielle Charleston, Jeanette Brown, Courtney Gulley and others.
Funeral Services will be held at 2:00PM Sunday, February 12, 2017 in the chapel of Mulhearn Funeral Home, Monroe, LA with Rev. Warren Eckhardt officiating. Entombment will be held at Mulhearn Memorial Park Mausoleum. Visitation will be from 1:00PM until service time on Sunday.
Online Registry/Condolences: www.mulhearnfuneralhome.com
Mulhearn Funeral Home
Sterlington Road
Monroe, LA
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