Carol E. Fink Brown

She grew up on a farm in Benton Pennsylvania and worked with her three siblings in their home and in the fields. She loved her family and had wonderful memories and stories of her life growing up on a farm in the 1920’s. She really did walk miles thru the snow to attend school. After she graduated from Benton High School she worked as a waitress in a local diner.

When World War II began she left home and moved to Niagara Falls, New York where she worked as a riveter for the Bell Aircraft Company assembling fighter planes used by the Army Air Force. She was a real life “Rosie the Riveter”.

She also worked in the Boston ship yards riveting steel plates on ships where she met her future husband George A. Brown who was a sailor in the U.S. Coast Guard. Shortly after World War II, they moved to Los Angeles, California and married.

In California, Carol worked as a cashier in a Department store while George worked at the Northrup Aircraft factory. Carol and George moved many times during their life together including stops in Medford, OR where their first son was born; Bryan, TX, where their second son was born; Tacoma, WA, where their third son was born; Spokane, WA, Benton, PA and Aurora, CO where George worked for United Airlines; Houston TX, where George worked for NASA; Denver CO, where Carol and George started the first AAMCO transmission in Denver, and ultimately settled in Bedford, TX in 1968 where Carol started and ran a successful Karmelkorn franchise in Northeast Mall and George worked as a flight simulator engineer for American Airlines.

Carol always enjoyed the love, admiration, and respect of her entire family. She was a tireless worker and truly a role model and mentor to many people who worked for her and with her, during her years as owner of the Karmelkorn.

Funeral: 10am Wednesday August 10 at Bluebonnet Hills Funeral Home Chapel in Colleyville, with a visitation beginning at 9am. Internment at Bluebonnet Hills Memorial Park.

Survivors: Carol was preceded in death by her husband George A. Brown. She is survived by her sons Jeffrey L. Brown, Roger G. Brown and his wife Barbara, Gregory S. Brown and his wife Judy: Grandchildren Maxfield Brown, Roman Brown, Katherine Watkins, George Brown, William Brown and Great Grandson Wyatt Watkins.