Virginia Lou Brown

Mrs. Virginia Lou Brown, age 78 of Dewitt, Kentucky departed this life on Wednesday, October 22, 2025 at her home. She was the widow of Eugene Brown and the daughter of Richard Gray and Virginia Faye (Adkins) Gray born to them on December 12, 1946. Virginia was a member of the Pigeon Roost Holiness Church and was a loving wife, mother and grandmother.

She is preceded in death by her husband Eugene Brown, her parents, Richard and Virginia Gray, one daughter, Sandra Saylor and one brother, Bobby Gray.

Left behind to mourn her passing, nine children, Billy Gene Brown of Barbourville, Barb Gambrel, Becky Mills and husband Tony, Rita Baker and husband Larry and Richard Brown all of Scalf, Louisa Farley and husband Mark of Corbin, Charlotte Dial and husband Chris of Dewitt, Roberta Lawson and husband Aaron of Middlesboro and Eugene Brown, II and Michelle Grundy of Virginia, twenty-nine grandchildren, twenty-six great-grandchildren, one brother, Jeffrey Gray and wife Laura of Middlesboro, four sisters, Patricia Diane Morgan of Hyden, Belinda Cox of Barbourville, Vickie Farley of Leslie County and Betty Adams of Burning Springs. She also leaves behind many nieces, nephews and other relatives and friends.

Funeral services for Mrs. Brown will be held on Sunday, October 26, 2025 at 2:00 p.m. in the Hampton-Hutton Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. A.B. Smallwood, Rev. Bo Henson and Rev. Ken Merida officiating. She will be laid to rest beside her loving husband Eugene in the John’s Branch Cemetery. Pallbearers will be grandsons and sons-in-law. Hampton-Hutton Funeral Home will be in charge of arrangements.

Friends will be received at the funeral home on Saturday evening from 6:00 until 9:00 p.m. and on Sunday from 12:00 noon until the hour of service at 2:00.

To the Brown family the staff of the Hampton-Hutton Funeral Home would like to offer you our heartfelt sympathy during your time of bereavement.