Brown, Agnes Hildebrandt (1874-1966)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1 Sep 1966 p. 8

Birth date: 1874

text of obituary:

MRS. AGNES BROWN

Agnes Brown was born to Jacob and Aganetha Penner Hildebrandt in Russia on Dec. 24, 1874, and died on May 31, 1966 in Oklahoma City, Okla.

She came to the United States with her parents when she was three years old. The family settled on a farm near Hillsboro, Kan. in what was called Hope Valley. Here she attended grade school.

When she was 18 years old she was saved and was baptized with 53 others and joined the Ebenfeld Mennonite Brethren Church.

On Feb. 27, 1900 she was united in holy wedlock with C. C. Brown. He died in September 1944, and in May 1961 her youngest son, George, died. The last 11 years she made her home with her daughter, Martha Anderson, in Oklahoma City. She spent the last two years in bed as she was helpless, but she never complained. She was a loving, praying mother.

In 1906 the family moved to Optimer, Okla. In 1913 they moved to Inola, Okla., and in 1916 to Collinsville, Okla. where they lived 45 years.

They had joined the Nazarene Church, and were charter members of the Collinsville Church where her funeral was held on June 3, 1966. She reached the age of 91 years, five months and seven days.

To this union were born six children, three sons and three daughters: Jake Brown of Collinsville, John Brown of Ramona, Okla., Martha Anderson of Oklahoma City, Bertha Brown of Tulsa, and Mary Friend, St. Charles, Mo. Other survivors include eight grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren; one sister, Lizzie Berg of Reedley, Calif.; two sisters-in-law, and a host of friends and reletives [sic] who mourn her homegoing. — The Children.