Updated: 07 Sep 2009
Mary Park Brown, 70, of Oklahoma City, passed away Tuesday, June 4, 2002. She was born Feb. 4, 1932 in Fayetteville, Ark. to Thadeus Warsaw and Lyda Mae (Jones) Park.
Her family moved to Wister when she was a child; she graduated Wister High School 1948 where she played on the Wister Lady Wildcat's basketball team. She lived in several railroad towns before moving to El Reno in 1960 where she lived until moving to Yukon in 1973 and later to Oklahoma City in 1979. She was active in fund raising for the Arthritis Foundation and the America Heart Association. She had worked for the Joe Esco Tire Co. as a billing clerk and was a homemaker.
She was preceded in death by her parents; and a brother, Houston Columbus Park.
Survivors include her husband Leland Brown of the home; one daughter and son-in-law, Deborah Adamson and Paul Shell of Oklahoma City; one son, Philip Adamson of Oklahoma City; her daughter-in-law, Tami Adamson of Oklahoma City; her brother, Charley Park and wife Adele of Florida; one sister, Alice Overton of Las Vegas, Nev.; nine grandchildren, Melanie Brooks and husband Dennis of Yukon, Amanda Johnson and friend Brian McVey, Chrissy Carr and friend George Wilson, Jessica Shell, Graham Shell, Rachael Shell, Megan Adamson, Geoffrey Adamson and Trevor Adamson, all of Oklahoma City; four great-grandchildren, Noel Scott, Julian Johnson, Devin Wilson and Kelli Piper Cowns; special friends, Mark and LeMinh Delafleur of Hanoi, Veitnam; many nieces, nephews, great nieces and nephews; and other relatives and friends.
Services will be at 3:30 p.m. Friday, June 7 at the Wilson Funeral Home Chapel in El Reno. Burial will follow in Yukon Cemetery under the direction of Wilson Funeral Home of El Reno. Memorials may be made to the Arthritis Foundation, 500 N. Broadway Ave., Oklahoma City, OK 73102 or to the American Heart Association, 3545 N.W. 58th St., Oklahoma City, OK.