Dorothy Dorothy Elaine (Finger) Brown

BROWN, FINGER, SCHAFER, GIBSON, SHEA, HAGEN, WEAVER, NIGGEMEYER, SHERIDAN, DAVIDSON, LYCKE, ZANDARSKI

Posted By: Ruth Groesbeck McDowell (email)
Date: 2/18/2018 at 13:50:08

Powers Funeral Home

Dorothy E. Brown, 78, of rural Thayer died Oct. 13, 2008, at Afton Care Center.

Services will be 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 17, at Powers Funeral Home, junction of Highways 34 and 25. The Rev. Jim Morris will officiate. Burial will be in Browns Mountain Cemetery in rural Thayer.

Dorothy Elaine Brown was born August 10, 1930 in Butte, N.D. to Frances Elizabeth (Schafer) and George Roland Finger. She graduated from Jefferson High School in Daly City, Calif.

On Feb. 26, 1950, Dorothy married Robert Roman Brown in St. Maries, Idaho. In 1955, they moved to Union County, residing in Creston, Kent, Oak Hill, Arispe and finally settling near Thayer.

Dorothy was a homemaker, did bookkeeping for her husband's construction company and later, served families as a health care giver.

Survivors include her son, Robert "Bob" G. (wife Beverly) Brown of Thayer; one daughter, Cricket (Dianna) Sue Gibson and friend David Searl of Lorimor; one sister, Eyvonne (husband John) Shea of Pacifica, California; eight grandchildren, Heather (husband Kenny Jr.) Hagen and children Kenny III and Kimberly of Lorimor, Heidi (husband James) Weaver and children Alex, Cassidy, Jonathan and Jacob of Lenox, Sarah Brown (husband Erik Niggemeyer) of Muscatine, Rebecca (husband Matt) Sheridan of Ankeny, Mathew Brown of Thayer, RaGeana (husband Michael) Davidson and son Chase Lycke of Nevada, Jesse Brown of Ames and Hunter Zandarski of Neveda and seven great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Robert, one son, Rodney Buck and two brothers, Duane and Wesley Finger