Vivis Maureen Brown
January 22, 1928 - December 28, 2015
As published in the January 4, 2016 World-Spectator
V. Maureen Brown of Moosomin, Saskatchewan passed away at her home on Monday, December 28, 2015 at the age of 87 years.
Maureen was born in Ballybracken, County Antrim, Northern Ireland in 1928 and immigrated to Canada with her parents and her brother, arriving in Grenfell, Saskatchewan in March of 1930. She was raised on a farm and attended MacPherson School until Grade 8 and then finished high school in Grenfell, graduating in 1947.
Maureen moved to Moosomin in 1947 and was employed as a Saskatchewan government telephone operator for the next 14 years. She met her future husband, Allan Brown, in Moosomin and they were married on March 20, 1954 in St. Alban’s Anglican Church in Moosomin.
Maureen and Allan farmed in the Moosomin area until 1979 and raised two sons. They moved into Moosomin and resided at their Gordon Street home together until 2009. Maureen moved into Centennial Manor after Allan’s passing in 2009.
Outside of her family, who were her world, her other great pleasure was in belonging to the Parish Hall Guild of St. Alban’s Anglican Church which she joined in 1980, became president in 1981, and remained as such until 2014.
She is survived by her sons Robert (Michelle) and their daughter Isabella of Winnipeg; David (Sheila), his children Taylor (Curtis) in Golden, B.C. and Devon and their mother Debbie of Moosomin; and nephews and nieces and their families in both Canada and Ireland.
Maureen is predeceased by her twin sons (1969); her parents Sara Agnes (1978) and William Wannop Bryson (1984); her husband Allan (2009); and her brother William (Bill) Hugh Bryson (2013). She is also predeceased by her sisters-in-law Vivienne Brown (1950), Edith Brown (1993), Margaret Eastuke (2000), and Tena Brown (2012); and her brothers-in-law George Brown (1994), William (Bill) Brown (2010), and Jack Eastuke (2012).
Maureen requested cremation and a memorial service for family and friends in the early summer of 2016 followed by tea and refreshments at the St. Alban’s Parish Hall.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Moosomin and District Health Care Foundation in Maureen’s memory.
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