Hilda Brown

Hilda Frederick Brown, 87, died on Saturday, October 10, 2009 in Spartanburg, SC. Born August 28, 1922, in Hackleburg, Alabama, she was a daughter of the late Charles Walker and Francis Kirkpatrick Frederick. She was a Phi Kappa Phi graduate of Auburn University with a degree in Home Economics. Before marriage she worked with the Alabama Extension Service as a Home Demonstration Agent in Coffee and Covington Counties. A member of First Baptist Church of Spartanburg since 1949, she taught for 27 years in the adult and teenage Sunday School and Vacation Bible School. She was a member and former President of the Women's Bible Union, a founding member of the Church Helping Center, providing leadership for 30 years. She also served as president of Young at Heart and volunteered in the Telephone and Prayer Room ministries. She served as a volunteer with Hospice and St. Luke's Free Medical Clinic and delivered Mobile Meals for 29 years She is survived by her husband of 61 years, Jesse O. Brown, Jr., and three children and their spouses, Freda Brown Johnson of Kingwood, TX (John O. Johnson), Jesse O. (Chip) Brown III (Leslie Ivey Brown) of Lake Toxaway, NC, and Karen Brown Morton (Ray Morton) of Oakboro, NC. She is also survived by seven grandchildren, Ryan Johnson and wife Caroline, David Brown and wife Elizabeth, Lindsey Johnson, Matthew Johnson, Jesse Morton, Russell Brown and Emily Morton and one great-grandchild, Charlotte Brown. She is survived by one sister, Anne Hill of Birmingham, Alabama, and a number of nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by four brothers and one sister. The family will receive friends from 1:30 until 2:45 on Monday, October 12, 2009, at First Baptist Church Welcome Center. Funeral services will follow at 3:00 p.m. in the Church Sanctuary. Burial will follow in Greenlawn Memorial Gardens. Memorials may be made to Mobile Meals, P. O. Box 461, Spartanburg, SC 29304; or to the Rice Bowl for World Hunger at 951 South Pine Street, Suite 252, Spartanburg, SC, 29302. Floyd's Greenlawn Chapel To send flowers or a memorial gift to the family of Hilda Frederick Brown please visit our Sympathy Store.