Velma Brown

Velma Jean (Simpson) Brown was called to the Lord at 3:21 AM Saturday, March 11, 2006, at the home of her granddaughter in Aurora, Missouri following a five month illness with pancreatic cancer. Velma Jean was born near Selma, Kansas to Grace and J. Leonard Simpson on June 24, 1924. She was a graduate of Blue Mound High School in 1942. She was the school secretary after graduation before attending Fort Scott Junior College, Ottawa University, and Pittsburg State University. She taught elementary country school at District 3 and Logan school. She married Charles Brown on August 14, 1946, and then became a stay at home mom, raising their two children. Velma Jean and Charles lived on a farm near Mapleton, Kansas for 53 years before moving to Fort Scott, Kansas in 1999, where she resided until her illness. Velma belonged to the Federated Church in Blue Mound, Kansas where she also taught Sunday school. She belonged to multiple organizations and women's clubs, and also served for many years as an election supervising judge in the Stanton Township in Linn County, Kansas. Velma Jean was preceded in death by her husband Charles on September 13, 2000, her parents, one brother Warren Simpson and one sister Francis Day. She is survived by her son, Steve Brown of Blue Mound, Kansas and daughter Leta Ann Webber and her husband Ron of Lone Jack, Missouri; three granddaughters Polly (Webber) Diehl and her husband Dr. Jeffery Diehl, Aurora, Missouri; Marlena (Webber) Crampton and her husband Ed, Pleasant Hill, Missouri; and Gay Scoggin and her husband Barry of Olathe, Kansas; two grandsons Paul Webber and his wife Gaylen, Pleasant Hill, Missouri and Mike Gordon of Shawnee, Kansas; four great-granddaughters, one great-grandson and one brother James G. Simpson of Clinton, Missouri. The family would like to issue a special thanks to Community Hospices of Springfield for their kindness and compassion. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 AM Tuesday, March 14, 2006 at the Federated Church in Blue Mound, Kansas. Burial will be at the Sunny Slope Cemetery in Blue Mound. Contributions are suggested to either the American Cancer Society or Community Hospices of Springfield. Arrangements are under the direction of Coffel-Schneider Funeral Home, Mound City, Kansas. Online condolences may be left at www.coffelschneider.com.