OBITUARY: Wilma Mae (Potee) Brown

Wilma Mae (Potee) Brown, 91, passed away on Jan. 14, 2022, at Schowalter Villa in Hesston.  She was born April 23, 1930 in Ames, Iowa, to Lindley and Daisy (Stoll) Potee.

She graduated from Ames High School in 1948 and married her high school sweetheart, Robert (Bob) Edwin Brown on July 30, 1950. Wilma received nurses’ aid training and worked in hospitals and a nursing home. Together she and Bob served pastorates for 43 years in Louisburg, Memphis, Tenn., Van Buran, Ark., Fort Dodge, Iowa, Wichita, Scott City, Parsons, Sterling, Colo., and Colby. They spent 20-plus years of their retirement in Parsons before moving to Schowalter Villa in Hesston in 2012.

Wilma was part of many organizations including B.P.W., Parsons Amateur Woodworkers, board member at Kansas Christian Home, Colorado Christian Home, Red Cross and many other community and church organizations.

Survivors include sons, David (LeeAnn) Brown, El Reno, Okla., Jim (Stephanie) Brown, Augusta, daughter Cindy (Randall) Loucks, Hesston, grandchildren Shawn (Sarah Estes), Jeremey Brown, Krista Miller (John), Micah (Lucy) Loucks, Jared (Madison) Brown, Ana (Juan Carlos Diaz Quesada) Diaz Loucks and Emma (David) Dunsmoor, as well as 18 (soon to be 20) great-grandchildren.

She is also survived by a sister-in-law, Vivian Potee, three nieces and a nephew.

Preceded in death by husband, Robert Brown, grandson, Stacy Schwartz and brother, Milton Potee.

Funeral service will take place at Whitestone Mennonite Church, on Saturday, Feb.19, at 11 a.m. Family will greet guests following the service. The family asks that out of an abundance of caution for our small children and those that can’t be vaccinated, that you wear a mask at the service. Memorial donations may be made to Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice, in care of Miller-Ott Funeral Home, P.O. Box 32, Hesston, Kan., 67062.

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