Funeral Services for Lois Manning Brown, age 104, will be held at 2:00 p.m. Sunday, June 30, 2019 at Young's Funeral Home, El Dorado, AR, with Rev. Carley Davis of First Baptist Church, Smackover, AR officiating. Visitation will be held from 1:00 p.m. until service time. There will be a private burial in the Smackover Cemetery. Although Mrs. Brown lived in Smackover most of her adult life, she had been a resident of Grace Point Nursing Home in El Dorado for the last several years.
Mrs. Brown was born in Poplar Bluff, Missouri on December 12, 1914 to George Ross and Ruth Gwaltney Ross, and moved to Haynesville, LA as a child. In 1930, she moved to Smackover, AR where she married John Manning in 1933. After her husband’s death in 1934, she owned and operated Manning Beauty Shop in Smackover for over fifty years. She was a member of First Baptist Church in Smackover.
She was preceded by her husband, Walter Brown, and all of her brothers and sisters.
She is survived by her daughter, Johnie Echols, and her husband, Glenn of Ruston, LA; step-son, James Brown and his wife, Lura of El Dorado, AR; step-daughter, Charlene Yarbrough of Little Rock, AR; seven grandchildren; fourteen great grandchildren; five great, great grandchildren and a very special nephew, Wayne Weathersby of El Dorado, AR.
The family request memorials be made to First Baptist Church, 404 Broadway St., Smackover, AR 71762 or to the donor’s choice.
An online guest registry will be available at www.youngsfuneralhome.com
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