Gwen Myers Brown was born Oct. 4, 1934, in Panguitch, Utah, to James Levi and Ora Myers. She was the third of four children. She was raised in Panguitch and graduated from Panguitch High in 1952.
After graduation, she moved to Salt Lake City and worked as a switchboard operator. It was while she was living there that she was introduced to an Army buddy of her brother’s named Lawrence Brown.
They had just one date before Dad was shipped overseas. Mom must have made a great impression on him because he wrote her faithfully the entire time he was stationed overseas.
They were engaged Dec. 24, 1954, after Dad returned from overseas. They married in the Salt Lake Temple on June 24, 1955. Four children were born to this union: Anelisa, Laurie, Krehl and Ryan.
They moved to Woodruff, Utah, to help Grandpa Brown on the ranch. Mom worked right alongside Dad on the ranch, in the hayfields, irrigating and moving pipe, loading bales of hay to feed livestock, night herding sheep and cattle, raising many bum lambs and trailing cattle on the cattle drive. She was a great cook and provided many delicious meals for hay crews and hired men as well as her family through the years.
Mom always had a strong testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ. She served a stake mission with Dad. After Dad passed away in 1993, she served a mission as a temple worker in the Ogden Temple. She completed two full-time church missions in the New York Rochester and Missouri St. Louis missions.
Mom finished her journey here on earth on Wednesday, Nov. 22, in Morgan, Utah, at the age of 89. She truly exhibited what enduring to the end means.
She is survived by her four children, Anelisa (Brian), Laurie (Russ), Krehl (Tami) and Ryan (Kassie); nine grandchildren; 12 and a half great-grandchildren; a sister, Elva Mortensen; and a brother, Ned (Beverly); as well as her two brothers-in-law, Kenneth Brown and Frank Memory.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Lawrence; her parents; her brother, Jim; and a grandson, Kade.
Funeral services honoring Gwen were held at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 28. A viewing was held from 6-8 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 27, and again on Tuesday before the services, from 9:45-10:30 a.m. Viewings and services will be held at the Woodruff LDS Church in Woodruff, Utah.
Interment in the Woodruff Cemetery.
An extended obituary can be found at crandallfhevanston.com.
