Lorraine Skinner Brown

1916 - 2003

Lorraine Skinner Brown, 86, a loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, died peacefully Friday afternoon, May 16, 2003, at a local care center.

Funeral: Friends may call at Robertson Mueller Harper where Lorraine's family will receive friends from 6 to 7 p.m. Monday at which time services will be held in the Drawing Room. Entombment: She will be laid to rest privately next to her husband, Bill, in the Mausoleum at Greenwood Memorial Park.

Memorials: Those desiring, please make memorial contributions in her name to a charity of choice.

A native of Sunset in Montague Co., Alice Lorraine Skinner was born Aug. 6, 1916, the daughter of C.A. and Zella Boyd Skinner. She was a graduate of Sunset High School and attended CIA, College of Industrial Arts, now Texas Woman's University and the University of Texas at Austin. While in Austin, she met William Morris Brown, a member of a Tarrant County pioneer family. The couple were wed in 1936 and moved to Fort Worth in 1939 where Mr. Brown joined his father's law firm. He later became a partner with the firm, Brown, Herman, Scott, Dean & Miles. Mr. Brown died in 1987.

Lorraine was a longtime member of University Christian Church and the bible study group. She also was a member of the Woman's Club of Fort Worth, the Westcliff Garden Club, Monday Sewing Club, Canwick Club and Roundelay.

Survivors: Daughters, Gail Brown Milner and husband, Jay, of Fort Worth and Cindy Brown Ronveaux of Nashville, Tenn.; grandchildren, Susannah Touzel, Stacy Hollis and husband, Sam, Kate Stranick and husband, Chris, Richard Ronveaux and Christina Ronveaux Donelson and husband, Brendan; great-grandchildren, Lily Chapin Hollis, Thomas John Tozel Stranick, John Elliott Touzel Stranick and Patrick Waterfield Donelson.