BIOGRAPHICAL EXCERPTS
Tricia was born in Bon Secours Hospital, in Grosse Pointe, she joined her 10-year old brother, Bob, and 7-year old sister, Michelle, as "the baby". She attended St. Paul On the Lake Catholic School for first grade and made the "family move" to Petoskey, Michigan for the continuation of early schooling at St. Francis.
In Petoskey High School, she was delighted to be a member of the girl's tennis team with coach Karen Langes. Her junior year was spent in Australia as an exchange student. Upon returning for her senior year, she was an Advanced Placement student at North Central Michigan College, where her father, Bob Verhelle, taught Economics.
Her parents told her that she had to spend one year "with Dad" because the tuition was free, so her remaining freshman college credits were earned there.
After the Australia exposure to the international opportunities, always knowing from her early teens that she wanted to pursue a law degree, she chose Washington, D.C. for her undergraduate degree as well as her law degree, from Catholic University. Her close friend, Meghan Monroe, was her roommate for the undergraduate year and we don't know how they ever graduated... postcards were sent back from horse racing tracks, ski places out West, Broadway shows in New York, wishing her parents "were here"! As done for her brother when he graduated from dental school, her parents hired an advertising plane to circle the site of graduation, the largest Catholic Church in North America, the Basilica on the grounds of Catholic University, with a trailing banner that said, "Tricia Verhelle, J.D." Tricia came out of the ceremony and, as everyone grabbed for their cameras, said, "Oh, brother, my Mom did this"!
Wanting to practice real estate law, the wise Bill Conn told Tricia to "follow your mother around" or get some real estate experience. Tricia wrote to David Johnson, as Bay Harbor was just popping on to our local scene, and asked to join the real estate sales staff. David wrote back that she was too young at 25. Tricia replies, "I can do that job, I've been listening to my mother for years and I'm not too young!" She had three great years selling the fast-moving Bay Harbor real estate and at the same time rehabbed a house in Harbor Springs.
Tim Brown was a blind date that won her heart, 19 years apart in age, neither ever married. Timmy (15) and Teddy (13) followed and begin to learn, at an early age, the family business of Inns both in Florida and Michigan. With time being split between both locations, each with a tutor, Tricia was a full time homemaker right beside them.
Tricia pursued several hobbies.,tennis, ballroom dancing, and explored the world of artists, developing her own unique style of watercolor. When she sold her first art piece in a gallery in Key West, she called her parents to make sure they hadn't been the ones to buy it! She won first place twice in a juried Plein Air Art Show in Key West.
OBITUARY EXCERPTS
Tricia Verhelle Brown graced this earth too briefly.
The USTA Northern Michigan 3.5 Women's Tennis Team counted Tricia as a very active member as they won the last two years to go forward to the state level. Six of this Team will be pallbearers, carrying Tricia's pink casket. Although the funeral services will be closed casket, Tricia will be dressed in her favorite Lilly Pulitzer dress.
When asking Tricia's friends to describe her, these words always appear: beautiful, kind, thoughtful, gourmet cook, smiling, and always loving to family and friends.
Excerpts Source: Greenwood Cemetery Genealogy /Stones F. H. Petoskey, Michigan.
Special Note: Tricia is interred at Holy Childhood Cemetery in Harbor Springs with her son,Teddy. Triscia's husband, Timothy Brown, is interred in Greenwood Cemetery.
Three members of the Brown family, Tim, Tricia and Teddy, sadly died as the result of a plane crash that occurred Saturday, September 17 near Boyse, Montana
Note: Her life was remembered and celebrated during a Funeral Mass at Holy Childhood of Jesus Catholic Church in Harbor Springs.
Arrangements are pending with Stone Funeral Home and a full obituary will follow.
OBITUARY
Available in its entirety on-line at:
Greenwood Cemetery Genealogical Web Site
www.gwood.us/research/genealogical-research/
Petoskey, Michigan 49770.
Special Note:
Find-A-Geave Memorial #144784728.
for Lyle Rex Blossom memoralizes the
maternal grandfather of Tricia Verhelle.
Tricia was born in Bon Secours Hospital, in Grosse Pointe, she joined her 10-year old brother, Bob, and 7-year old sister, Michelle, as "the baby". She attended St. Paul On the Lake Catholic School for first grade and made the "family move" to Petoskey, Michigan for the continuation of early schooling at St. Francis.
In Petoskey High School, she was delighted to be a member of the girl's tennis team with coach Karen Langes. Her junior year was spent in Australia as an exchange student. Upon returning for her senior year, she was an Advanced Placement student at North Central Michigan College, where her father, Bob Verhelle, taught Economics.
Her parents told her that she had to spend one year "with Dad" because the tuition was free, so her remaining freshman college credits were earned there.
After the Australia exposure to the international opportunities, always knowing from her early teens that she wanted to pursue a law degree, she chose Washington, D.C. for her undergraduate degree as well as her law degree, from Catholic University. Her close friend, Meghan Monroe, was her roommate for the undergraduate year and we don't know how they ever graduated... postcards were sent back from horse racing tracks, ski places out West, Broadway shows in New York, wishing her parents "were here"! As done for her brother when he graduated from dental school, her parents hired an advertising plane to circle the site of graduation, the largest Catholic Church in North America, the Basilica on the grounds of Catholic University, with a trailing banner that said, "Tricia Verhelle, J.D." Tricia came out of the ceremony and, as everyone grabbed for their cameras, said, "Oh, brother, my Mom did this"!
Wanting to practice real estate law, the wise Bill Conn told Tricia to "follow your mother around" or get some real estate experience. Tricia wrote to David Johnson, as Bay Harbor was just popping on to our local scene, and asked to join the real estate sales staff. David wrote back that she was too young at 25. Tricia replies, "I can do that job, I've been listening to my mother for years and I'm not too young!" She had three great years selling the fast-moving Bay Harbor real estate and at the same time rehabbed a house in Harbor Springs.
Tim Brown was a blind date that won her heart, 19 years apart in age, neither ever married. Timmy (15) and Teddy (13) followed and begin to learn, at an early age, the family business of Inns both in Florida and Michigan. With time being split between both locations, each with a tutor, Tricia was a full time homemaker right beside them.
Tricia pursued several hobbies.,tennis, ballroom dancing, and explored the world of artists, developing her own unique style of watercolor. When she sold her first art piece in a gallery in Key West, she called her parents to make sure they hadn't been the ones to buy it! She won first place twice in a juried Plein Air Art Show in Key West.
OBITUARY EXCERPTS
Tricia Verhelle Brown graced this earth too briefly.
The USTA Northern Michigan 3.5 Women's Tennis Team counted Tricia as a very active member as they won the last two years to go forward to the state level. Six of this Team will be pallbearers, carrying Tricia's pink casket. Although the funeral services will be closed casket, Tricia will be dressed in her favorite Lilly Pulitzer dress.
When asking Tricia's friends to describe her, these words always appear: beautiful, kind, thoughtful, gourmet cook, smiling, and always loving to family and friends.
Excerpts Source: Greenwood Cemetery Genealogy /Stones F. H. Petoskey, Michigan.
Special Note: Tricia is interred at Holy Childhood Cemetery in Harbor Springs with her son,Teddy. Triscia's husband, Timothy Brown, is interred in Greenwood Cemetery.
Three members of the Brown family, Tim, Tricia and Teddy, sadly died as the result of a plane crash that occurred Saturday, September 17 near Boyse, Montana
Note: Her life was remembered and celebrated during a Funeral Mass at Holy Childhood of Jesus Catholic Church in Harbor Springs.
Arrangements are pending with Stone Funeral Home and a full obituary will follow.
OBITUARY
Available in its entirety on-line at:
Greenwood Cemetery Genealogical Web Site
www.gwood.us/research/genealogical-research/
Petoskey, Michigan 49770.
Special Note:
Find-A-Geave Memorial #144784728.
for Lyle Rex Blossom memoralizes the
maternal grandfather of Tricia Verhelle.
BIOGRAPHICAL EXCERPTS
Tricia was born in Bon Secours Hospital, in Grosse Pointe, she joined her 10-year old brother, Bob, and 7-year old sister, Michelle, as "the baby". She attended St. Paul On the Lake Catholic School for first grade and made the "family move" to Petoskey, Michigan for the continuation of early schooling at St. Francis.
In Petoskey High School, she was delighted to be a member of the girl's tennis team with coach Karen Langes. Her junior year was spent in Australia as an exchange student. Upon returning for her senior year, she was an Advanced Placement student at North Central Michigan College, where her father, Bob Verhelle, taught Economics.
Her parents told her that she had to spend one year "with Dad" because the tuition was free, so her remaining freshman college credits were earned there.
After the Australia exposure to the international opportunities, always knowing from her early teens that she wanted to pursue a law degree, she chose Washington, D.C. for her undergraduate degree as well as her law degree, from Catholic University. Her close friend, Meghan Monroe, was her roommate for the undergraduate year and we don't know how they ever graduated... postcards were sent back from horse racing tracks, ski places out West, Broadway shows in New York, wishing her parents "were here"! As done for her brother when he graduated from dental school, her parents hired an advertising plane to circle the site of graduation, the largest Catholic Church in North America, the Basilica on the grounds of Catholic University, with a trailing banner that said, "Tricia Verhelle, J.D." Tricia came out of the ceremony and, as everyone grabbed for their cameras, said, "Oh, brother, my Mom did this"!
Wanting to practice real estate law, the wise Bill Conn told Tricia to "follow your mother around" or get some real estate experience. Tricia wrote to David Johnson, as Bay Harbor was just popping on to our local scene, and asked to join the real estate sales staff. David wrote back that she was too young at 25. Tricia replies, "I can do that job, I've been listening to my mother for years and I'm not too young!" She had three great years selling the fast-moving Bay Harbor real estate and at the same time rehabbed a house in Harbor Springs.
Tim Brown was a blind date that won her heart, 19 years apart in age, neither ever married. Timmy (15) and Teddy (13) followed and begin to learn, at an early age, the family business of Inns both in Florida and Michigan. With time being split between both locations, each with a tutor, Tricia was a full time homemaker right beside them.
Tricia pursued several hobbies.,tennis, ballroom dancing, and explored the world of artists, developing her own unique style of watercolor. When she sold her first art piece in a gallery in Key West, she called her parents to make sure they hadn't been the ones to buy it! She won first place twice in a juried Plein Air Art Show in Key West.
OBITUARY EXCERPTS
Tricia Verhelle Brown graced this earth too briefly.
The USTA Northern Michigan 3.5 Women's Tennis Team counted Tricia as a very active member as they won the last two years to go forward to the state level. Six of this Team will be pallbearers, carrying Tricia's pink casket. Although the funeral services will be closed casket, Tricia will be dressed in her favorite Lilly Pulitzer dress.
When asking Tricia's friends to describe her, these words always appear: beautiful, kind, thoughtful, gourmet cook, smiling, and always loving to family and friends.
Excerpts Source: Greenwood Cemetery Genealogy /Stones F. H. Petoskey, Michigan.
Special Note: Tricia is interred at Holy Childhood Cemetery in Harbor Springs with her son,Teddy. Triscia's husband, Timothy Brown, is interred in Greenwood Cemetery.
Three members of the Brown family, Tim, Tricia and Teddy, sadly died as the result of a plane crash that occurred Saturday, September 17 near Boyse, Montana
Note: Her life was remembered and celebrated during a Funeral Mass at Holy Childhood of Jesus Catholic Church in Harbor Springs.
Arrangements are pending with Stone Funeral Home and a full obituary will follow.
OBITUARY
Available in its entirety on-line at:
Greenwood Cemetery Genealogical Web Site
www.gwood.us/research/genealogical-research/
Petoskey, Michigan 49770.
Special Note:
Find-A-Geave Memorial #144784728.
for Lyle Rex Blossom memoralizes the
maternal grandfather of Tricia Verhelle.
Tricia was born in Bon Secours Hospital, in Grosse Pointe, she joined her 10-year old brother, Bob, and 7-year old sister, Michelle, as "the baby". She attended St. Paul On the Lake Catholic School for first grade and made the "family move" to Petoskey, Michigan for the continuation of early schooling at St. Francis.
In Petoskey High School, she was delighted to be a member of the girl's tennis team with coach Karen Langes. Her junior year was spent in Australia as an exchange student. Upon returning for her senior year, she was an Advanced Placement student at North Central Michigan College, where her father, Bob Verhelle, taught Economics.
Her parents told her that she had to spend one year "with Dad" because the tuition was free, so her remaining freshman college credits were earned there.
After the Australia exposure to the international opportunities, always knowing from her early teens that she wanted to pursue a law degree, she chose Washington, D.C. for her undergraduate degree as well as her law degree, from Catholic University. Her close friend, Meghan Monroe, was her roommate for the undergraduate year and we don't know how they ever graduated... postcards were sent back from horse racing tracks, ski places out West, Broadway shows in New York, wishing her parents "were here"! As done for her brother when he graduated from dental school, her parents hired an advertising plane to circle the site of graduation, the largest Catholic Church in North America, the Basilica on the grounds of Catholic University, with a trailing banner that said, "Tricia Verhelle, J.D." Tricia came out of the ceremony and, as everyone grabbed for their cameras, said, "Oh, brother, my Mom did this"!
Wanting to practice real estate law, the wise Bill Conn told Tricia to "follow your mother around" or get some real estate experience. Tricia wrote to David Johnson, as Bay Harbor was just popping on to our local scene, and asked to join the real estate sales staff. David wrote back that she was too young at 25. Tricia replies, "I can do that job, I've been listening to my mother for years and I'm not too young!" She had three great years selling the fast-moving Bay Harbor real estate and at the same time rehabbed a house in Harbor Springs.
Tim Brown was a blind date that won her heart, 19 years apart in age, neither ever married. Timmy (15) and Teddy (13) followed and begin to learn, at an early age, the family business of Inns both in Florida and Michigan. With time being split between both locations, each with a tutor, Tricia was a full time homemaker right beside them.
Tricia pursued several hobbies.,tennis, ballroom dancing, and explored the world of artists, developing her own unique style of watercolor. When she sold her first art piece in a gallery in Key West, she called her parents to make sure they hadn't been the ones to buy it! She won first place twice in a juried Plein Air Art Show in Key West.
OBITUARY EXCERPTS
Tricia Verhelle Brown graced this earth too briefly.
The USTA Northern Michigan 3.5 Women's Tennis Team counted Tricia as a very active member as they won the last two years to go forward to the state level. Six of this Team will be pallbearers, carrying Tricia's pink casket. Although the funeral services will be closed casket, Tricia will be dressed in her favorite Lilly Pulitzer dress.
When asking Tricia's friends to describe her, these words always appear: beautiful, kind, thoughtful, gourmet cook, smiling, and always loving to family and friends.
Excerpts Source: Greenwood Cemetery Genealogy /Stones F. H. Petoskey, Michigan.
Special Note: Tricia is interred at Holy Childhood Cemetery in Harbor Springs with her son,Teddy. Triscia's husband, Timothy Brown, is interred in Greenwood Cemetery.
Three members of the Brown family, Tim, Tricia and Teddy, sadly died as the result of a plane crash that occurred Saturday, September 17 near Boyse, Montana
Note: Her life was remembered and celebrated during a Funeral Mass at Holy Childhood of Jesus Catholic Church in Harbor Springs.
Arrangements are pending with Stone Funeral Home and a full obituary will follow.
OBITUARY
Available in its entirety on-line at:
Greenwood Cemetery Genealogical Web Site
www.gwood.us/research/genealogical-research/
Petoskey, Michigan 49770.
Special Note:
Find-A-Geave Memorial #144784728.
for Lyle Rex Blossom memoralizes the
maternal grandfather of Tricia Verhelle.
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