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BixbyBulletin.com
Bixby, Oklahoma
January 8, 2010

Pearl Brown dies shortly before her 102nd birthday

   A funeral service was held for Pearl Brown, 101, at Rivercrest Chapel, Bixby, Okla., with interment at Floral Haven Memorial Gardens in Broken Arrow, officiated by Jack Selby. Services were under the direction of Bixby Funeral Service.

Pearl L. Brown was born Feb. 3, 1908, in Sequoyah County, Okla., the daughter of James F. Couthren and Mary Della Jackson Couthren.  Pearl died Sunday, Jan. 3, 2010, at Rolling Hills Care Center in Catoosa, Okla.

Pearl Brown. Pearl was recognized by the Bixby Bulletin and the City of Bixby when she turned 100. She died shortly before her 102nd birthday.

Pearl grew up approximately 100 miles south of Bixby in Sequoyah County and moved to Sand Springs when she was 17 to care for an ailing aunt. 

She and James Franklin Brown were married Aug. 26, 1925, at Sapulpa, Okla.  At the time of his death, they had celebrated 54 years of marriage.  During that time, they lived in Sand Springs until 1942 when they moved to Bixby.

Pearl was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Frank in 1979; her son, Melvin, and two grandchildren.

She is survived by: four sons, Vernon Brown and wife Mary of Collinsville, Okla., A.F. Cotton Brown and wife Evelyn of Hitchita, Okla., Estel Brown of Pawhuska, Okla., and Shirl Brown and wife Dorothy of Catoosa, Okla.; four daughters, Mary Lamb of Council hill, Okla., Chris Terpe of Tulsa, Verda Roberts of Howe, Okla., and Ann Miller and husband, Milton of Bokoshe, Okla. Also, one brother, Frank Couthren of Surprize, Ariz.; 27 grandchildren; 56 great-grandchildren; 22 great-great grandchildren.
 

 

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