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Joyce Elaine <I>Powell</I> Brown

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Joyce Elaine Powell Brown

Birth
Elsie, Perkins County, Nebraska, USA
Death
13 Apr 2019 (aged 91)
Tigard, Washington County, Oregon, USA
Burial
Salem, Marion County, Oregon, USA GPS-Latitude: 44.89941, Longitude: -123.0674912
Plot
Block 14 Section 53A Lot 2
Memorial ID
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Tigard - Joyce Elaine Brown, age 91 passed away peacefully surrounded by family on Saturday April 13, 2019 in Tigard, Oregon. She was born in a sod house on February 29, 1928, in Elsie, Nebraska to Charles and Hazel Powell. She was their fifth child, and only leap year baby! Joyce had three brothers and three sisters; Myron, Beulah, Fauneil, Bernard, Vonda, and Dale. She married the love of her life Robert Brown on November 9, 1946 in Salem, Oregon. They had three children, Roger, Carolyn, and Leilani. Joyce attended the Market Street Church of Christ in Salem for most of her life before moving to Tigard where she attended the Southwest Church of Christ. Joyce had a love for the Lord, her faith was the catalyst to her entire being.

Spending time with her family was so important to her. Survived by her sister Vonda, and her children Roger, Carolyn and Leilani, also by nieces and nephews, cousins, grandchildren , and great grandchildren. Celebration of Life will be held at the Southwest Church of Christ in Tigard on April 20 at 11:00 am. Burial at Belcrest Cemetery will be held at 3:00 pm following the Celebration of Life.

Published in The (Salem, Oregon) Statesman Journal on Apr. 17, 2019.
Tigard - Joyce Elaine Brown, age 91 passed away peacefully surrounded by family on Saturday April 13, 2019 in Tigard, Oregon. She was born in a sod house on February 29, 1928, in Elsie, Nebraska to Charles and Hazel Powell. She was their fifth child, and only leap year baby! Joyce had three brothers and three sisters; Myron, Beulah, Fauneil, Bernard, Vonda, and Dale. She married the love of her life Robert Brown on November 9, 1946 in Salem, Oregon. They had three children, Roger, Carolyn, and Leilani. Joyce attended the Market Street Church of Christ in Salem for most of her life before moving to Tigard where she attended the Southwest Church of Christ. Joyce had a love for the Lord, her faith was the catalyst to her entire being.

Spending time with her family was so important to her. Survived by her sister Vonda, and her children Roger, Carolyn and Leilani, also by nieces and nephews, cousins, grandchildren , and great grandchildren. Celebration of Life will be held at the Southwest Church of Christ in Tigard on April 20 at 11:00 am. Burial at Belcrest Cemetery will be held at 3:00 pm following the Celebration of Life.

Published in The (Salem, Oregon) Statesman Journal on Apr. 17, 2019.


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