Patt Crow Brown

1938-2014
Sylvia Patricia Crow Brown, 75, passed away peacefully at home on January 3, 2014. Patt was born May 5, 1938 in Ogden UT. She was adopted at age three by her parents Thomas F. Crow and Marian Lomax Crow and subsequently sealed in the Mesa Temple. Patt always felt grateful both to her birth parents for their sacrifice and to her adoptive parents for giving her a loving, eternal family. She was raised in Independence, MO, graduated from William Chrisman High and attended BYU. Met W. Kay Brown on March 31, 1956 and courted by long distance for nearly 2 years. They lived 186 miles apart but were together nearly every weekend. Patt then went to Utah to attend BYU but after one semester, Kay drove from MO to get her and convince her to come home and marry him. They were married for time and all eternity in the Salt Lake Temple March 7, 1958. A wonderful wife, mother, home maker and cook, she had all her 16 children and grandchildren to dinner nearly every Sunday and took them out to dinner nearly every Thursday. Whatever she brought to an event was the most spectacular thing there. She allowed Kay to take furniture out of the living room every December and January to convert it to a train room for the neighborhood families to enjoy. She loved to travel in the family motorhomes visiting 40 states, DC, Mexico and Canada over a 20 year period. Despite being terrified of water she made 80 trips to Lake Powell over a 32 year period in the family boat, Rice Pudding--named for her signature breakfast. A lifelong member of the LDS Church, she had a strong testimony and served in many callings in the ward and stake Primary and Relief Society where her perpetual smile and bubbly personality were enjoyed by everyone. She served as ward compassionate service leader for 10 years but her favorite job was as primary chorister. She so loved that position that when she was released from it to become a Relief Society secretary, she cried so much that she was allowed to stay in Primary instead. Patt spent her life raising her three children, taking care of her family and enjoying her grandchildren. She attended countless little league games, band concerts and choir concerts. She would drop everything and knock herself out to help with a school or church project. She built an amazing "Dumbo" float for a parade-with some help from Kay-from the ground up in her driveway. She sewed beautifully and her children were never allowed to have a store bought costumes-no matter how much they wanted one-because she knew she could make one better. She believed life was fun and never took herself too seriously. Hers was a life of joy and service to others. Like the George Bailey family we have had a wonderful life, lived in a drafty old two story house and didn't have any money.
Survived by loving husband Kay, son Christopher (Lynette) and Henry (3); son Kerry (Zanna), Tessa (6), Kai (4) and baby girl (due in May) all of Draper; daughter Heather Heil (Mike), Lindsey Hammon (serving a mission in New Zealand), Brooklynn Hammon (serving a mission in Japan), Lucas (10), Brighton (9), Tierney (6) of American Fork; brother Robert Crow (Hanh), Prairie Village, KS; sister Shirley Brooks, Belmont, CA; and her beloved brothers and sisters-in-law and countless friends she loved dearly.
Funeral services will be held on Wednesday January 8, 2014 at 11:00am at the Rosecrest Second Ward, 3101 South 2300 East. Friends may visit with the family on Tuesday evening from 6:00pm to 8:00pm at the Holbrook Mortuary, 3251 South 2300 East, and at the church on Wednesday morning from 9:30am to 10:30am prior to services. Interment: Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park. On line tributes and comments can be posted for the family at www.holbrookmortuary.com