Nita Lou (Herrick) Brown, 89, died peacefully October 9, 2020, at the Saline Evangelical Home, after a more than 15-year dementia journey and more recently cancer. She was predeceased in September 2018 by her husband of 63 years, Dr. Morris Dow Brown, 86.
Nita was born on September 10, 1931 and raised in Ludington, Michigan, the fourth of eight children born to Hiram and Gladys Herrick. She and Morris met as freshman at Central Michigan College (now University) and formed a lasting bond. Both earned graduate degrees at the University of Michigan – Nita, a Masters in education, and Morris, a dental degree. Nita taught high school science and math classes, while Morris served two years as a U.S. Army dentist. In 1959, they purchased a dental practice in Nashville, MI, and worked side-by-side until an early retirement in 1978.
Though the past 11 years of Nita's life were spent in a nursing facility, she received excellent, loving care from the providers at EHM-Senior Solutions. They cared for her as they would their own family.
Nita will be missed by her daughter, Diane Brown of Ann Arbor, and two sisters, Joyce (Jim) Burchett of Edmore, MI, and Nancy (Ken) Motyka of Ludington, MI.
Her brain was donated to the University of Michigan Brain Bank for dementia research and cremation has taken place.
Her cremains will be buried at a later time next to Morris at Riverside Cemetery in Mt. Pleasant, MI.
Nita was born on September 10, 1931 and raised in Ludington, Michigan, the fourth of eight children born to Hiram and Gladys Herrick. She and Morris met as freshman at Central Michigan College (now University) and formed a lasting bond. Both earned graduate degrees at the University of Michigan – Nita, a Masters in education, and Morris, a dental degree. Nita taught high school science and math classes, while Morris served two years as a U.S. Army dentist. In 1959, they purchased a dental practice in Nashville, MI, and worked side-by-side until an early retirement in 1978.
Though the past 11 years of Nita's life were spent in a nursing facility, she received excellent, loving care from the providers at EHM-Senior Solutions. They cared for her as they would their own family.
Nita will be missed by her daughter, Diane Brown of Ann Arbor, and two sisters, Joyce (Jim) Burchett of Edmore, MI, and Nancy (Ken) Motyka of Ludington, MI.
Her brain was donated to the University of Michigan Brain Bank for dementia research and cremation has taken place.
Her cremains will be buried at a later time next to Morris at Riverside Cemetery in Mt. Pleasant, MI.
Nita Lou (Herrick) Brown, 89, died peacefully October 9, 2020, at the Saline Evangelical Home, after a more than 15-year dementia journey and more recently cancer. She was predeceased in September 2018 by her husband of 63 years, Dr. Morris Dow Brown, 86.
Nita was born on September 10, 1931 and raised in Ludington, Michigan, the fourth of eight children born to Hiram and Gladys Herrick. She and Morris met as freshman at Central Michigan College (now University) and formed a lasting bond. Both earned graduate degrees at the University of Michigan – Nita, a Masters in education, and Morris, a dental degree. Nita taught high school science and math classes, while Morris served two years as a U.S. Army dentist. In 1959, they purchased a dental practice in Nashville, MI, and worked side-by-side until an early retirement in 1978.
Though the past 11 years of Nita's life were spent in a nursing facility, she received excellent, loving care from the providers at EHM-Senior Solutions. They cared for her as they would their own family.
Nita will be missed by her daughter, Diane Brown of Ann Arbor, and two sisters, Joyce (Jim) Burchett of Edmore, MI, and Nancy (Ken) Motyka of Ludington, MI.
Her brain was donated to the University of Michigan Brain Bank for dementia research and cremation has taken place.
Her cremains will be buried at a later time next to Morris at Riverside Cemetery in Mt. Pleasant, MI.
Nita was born on September 10, 1931 and raised in Ludington, Michigan, the fourth of eight children born to Hiram and Gladys Herrick. She and Morris met as freshman at Central Michigan College (now University) and formed a lasting bond. Both earned graduate degrees at the University of Michigan – Nita, a Masters in education, and Morris, a dental degree. Nita taught high school science and math classes, while Morris served two years as a U.S. Army dentist. In 1959, they purchased a dental practice in Nashville, MI, and worked side-by-side until an early retirement in 1978.
Though the past 11 years of Nita's life were spent in a nursing facility, she received excellent, loving care from the providers at EHM-Senior Solutions. They cared for her as they would their own family.
Nita will be missed by her daughter, Diane Brown of Ann Arbor, and two sisters, Joyce (Jim) Burchett of Edmore, MI, and Nancy (Ken) Motyka of Ludington, MI.
Her brain was donated to the University of Michigan Brain Bank for dementia research and cremation has taken place.
Her cremains will be buried at a later time next to Morris at Riverside Cemetery in Mt. Pleasant, MI.
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