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Leona M. <I>Horn</I> Brown

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Leona M. Horn Brown

Birth
Custer County, Nebraska, USA
Death
27 Dec 2006 (aged 85)
Kearney, Buffalo County, Nebraska, USA
Burial
Kearney, Buffalo County, Nebraska, USA Add to Map
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Leona M Brown, 85, of Kearney, died Wednesday, Dec. 27 2006, at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney.

Visitation was Friday at the Homer-Lieske-Homer Mortuary in Kearney. Funeral services were Saturday, Dec 30, 2006 at the Homer-Lieske-Homer Mortuary of Kearney, with C.J. Willis officiating. Burial was in the Kearney Cemetery.

Survivers included three sons, Charles (Charlotte) Brown of Stratton, Colo., Gifford (Glenda) Brown of South Padre Island, Texas, and Leon Brown of Kearney; two brothers, Gilbert Horn of Elwood, and Elwood Horn of Lexington, seven grandchildren, and 15 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents and one sister.

Leona was born March 18, 1921, in a sod house in Custer County to Leo and Louise (Davis) Horn. She graduated from Broken Bow High School in 1938. Leona then graduated from nursing school in Denver in 1954.

She lived in Cozad and worked in Lexington at the hospital. She moved to Kearney in 1958, and worked as a nurse in the Intensive Care Unit at Good Samaritan Hospital, retiring from nursing in 1984.
Leona M Brown, 85, of Kearney, died Wednesday, Dec. 27 2006, at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney.

Visitation was Friday at the Homer-Lieske-Homer Mortuary in Kearney. Funeral services were Saturday, Dec 30, 2006 at the Homer-Lieske-Homer Mortuary of Kearney, with C.J. Willis officiating. Burial was in the Kearney Cemetery.

Survivers included three sons, Charles (Charlotte) Brown of Stratton, Colo., Gifford (Glenda) Brown of South Padre Island, Texas, and Leon Brown of Kearney; two brothers, Gilbert Horn of Elwood, and Elwood Horn of Lexington, seven grandchildren, and 15 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents and one sister.

Leona was born March 18, 1921, in a sod house in Custer County to Leo and Louise (Davis) Horn. She graduated from Broken Bow High School in 1938. Leona then graduated from nursing school in Denver in 1954.

She lived in Cozad and worked in Lexington at the hospital. She moved to Kearney in 1958, and worked as a nurse in the Intensive Care Unit at Good Samaritan Hospital, retiring from nursing in 1984.


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  • Created by: Jan Eagan
  • Added: May 29, 2010
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/52973696/leona_m-brown: accessed ), memorial page for Leona M. Horn Brown (18 Mar 1921–27 Dec 2006), Find a Grave Memorial ID 52973696, citing Kearney Cemetery, Kearney, Buffalo County, Nebraska, USA; Maintained by Jan Eagan (contributor 47142954).