Dorothy Brown, 91, of Sheridan, passed away on Saturday, August 2, 2003, at Sheridan Manor.
Dorothy was born on August 11, 1911, in Aurora, Illinois, to Albert and Minnie (Beckman) Albrecht. She arrived in Sheridan with her family on the train in 1915. She lived and worked at the Wagner School with schoolteacher Amelia Wagner, who taught her homemaking skills, and as a girl worked for various families in Sheridan. Dorothy also worked as a maid, babysitter, and cabin girl at the Bones Brothers Dude Ranch in Birney, Montana then later worked at the Western Coffee Shop in Sheridan. On May 11, 1940, she married Orville Lloyd Brown in Sheridan, WY. They raised their family on the Meade Creek and Bar 13 ranches. Their union was blessed with five children. Mrs. Brown cooked, gardened, and canned for her family and the ranch hands. The Browns also lived and worked at the Gallatin Dairy Ranch, Beckton and Soldier Creek and worked for the PK and Rice Wrench ranches. Dorothy was a member of the Immanuel Lutheran Church where she also taught Sunday school and bible school. She helped clean the church as well as brought in fresh flowers from her garden. Mrs. Brown cleaned houses and babysat for numerous families in the community. She housesat and babysat for Homer Scott Jr and his wife Janet for many years. Dorothy enjoyed spending time and singing to her grandchildren and great-grandchildren that lived close to her.
Mrs. Brown was preceded in death by her husband Orville; her parents; her two sons, Kenneth Brown and Lawrence "Larry" Brown; her two granddaughters Darlyn Arbogast Roberts and Kathleen Brown Slaybaugh; her three sisters, Ruth Leis, Alma Falvo, and Gertrude Fraser; and her brother Harold Albrecht. Survivors include her son Ron Albreicht and his wife Joanne of Wynnewood, OK; her two daughters Barbara Arbogast and Sharon Foster both of Sheridan; her eleven grandchildren, twenty nine great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandson; her two sisters, Emma Fry of Sheridan and Esther Benton of Buffalo, WY; and numerous nieces and nephews.
A viewing will be held at Kane Funeral Home on Wednesday, August 6, 2003 from 7:00 pm until 8:00 pm. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, August 7, 2003, at the Immanuel Lutheran Church with Pastor William Heine officiating. Interment will follow in the Sheridan Municipal Cemetery. Kane Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.
The family has requested that memorials be made in Dorothy's name to Immanuel Lutheran Church Building Fund, or Martin Luther Grammar School, or the Senior Center in care of Karen Green, First Interstate Bank, P.O. Box 2007, Sheridan, WY 82801.
Dorothy was born on August 11, 1911, in Aurora, Illinois, to Albert and Minnie (Beckman) Albrecht. She arrived in Sheridan with her family on the train in 1915. She lived and worked at the Wagner School with schoolteacher Amelia Wagner, who taught her homemaking skills, and as a girl worked for various families in Sheridan. Dorothy also worked as a maid, babysitter, and cabin girl at the Bones Brothers Dude Ranch in Birney, Montana then later worked at the Western Coffee Shop in Sheridan. On May 11, 1940, she married Orville Lloyd Brown in Sheridan, WY. They raised their family on the Meade Creek and Bar 13 ranches. Their union was blessed with five children. Mrs. Brown cooked, gardened, and canned for her family and the ranch hands. The Browns also lived and worked at the Gallatin Dairy Ranch, Beckton and Soldier Creek and worked for the PK and Rice Wrench ranches. Dorothy was a member of the Immanuel Lutheran Church where she also taught Sunday school and bible school. She helped clean the church as well as brought in fresh flowers from her garden. Mrs. Brown cleaned houses and babysat for numerous families in the community. She housesat and babysat for Homer Scott Jr and his wife Janet for many years. Dorothy enjoyed spending time and singing to her grandchildren and great-grandchildren that lived close to her.
Mrs. Brown was preceded in death by her husband Orville; her parents; her two sons, Kenneth Brown and Lawrence "Larry" Brown; her two granddaughters Darlyn Arbogast Roberts and Kathleen Brown Slaybaugh; her three sisters, Ruth Leis, Alma Falvo, and Gertrude Fraser; and her brother Harold Albrecht. Survivors include her son Ron Albreicht and his wife Joanne of Wynnewood, OK; her two daughters Barbara Arbogast and Sharon Foster both of Sheridan; her eleven grandchildren, twenty nine great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandson; her two sisters, Emma Fry of Sheridan and Esther Benton of Buffalo, WY; and numerous nieces and nephews.
A viewing will be held at Kane Funeral Home on Wednesday, August 6, 2003 from 7:00 pm until 8:00 pm. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, August 7, 2003, at the Immanuel Lutheran Church with Pastor William Heine officiating. Interment will follow in the Sheridan Municipal Cemetery. Kane Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.
The family has requested that memorials be made in Dorothy's name to Immanuel Lutheran Church Building Fund, or Martin Luther Grammar School, or the Senior Center in care of Karen Green, First Interstate Bank, P.O. Box 2007, Sheridan, WY 82801.
Dorothy Brown, 91, of Sheridan, passed away on Saturday, August 2, 2003, at Sheridan Manor.
Dorothy was born on August 11, 1911, in Aurora, Illinois, to Albert and Minnie (Beckman) Albrecht. She arrived in Sheridan with her family on the train in 1915. She lived and worked at the Wagner School with schoolteacher Amelia Wagner, who taught her homemaking skills, and as a girl worked for various families in Sheridan. Dorothy also worked as a maid, babysitter, and cabin girl at the Bones Brothers Dude Ranch in Birney, Montana then later worked at the Western Coffee Shop in Sheridan. On May 11, 1940, she married Orville Lloyd Brown in Sheridan, WY. They raised their family on the Meade Creek and Bar 13 ranches. Their union was blessed with five children. Mrs. Brown cooked, gardened, and canned for her family and the ranch hands. The Browns also lived and worked at the Gallatin Dairy Ranch, Beckton and Soldier Creek and worked for the PK and Rice Wrench ranches. Dorothy was a member of the Immanuel Lutheran Church where she also taught Sunday school and bible school. She helped clean the church as well as brought in fresh flowers from her garden. Mrs. Brown cleaned houses and babysat for numerous families in the community. She housesat and babysat for Homer Scott Jr and his wife Janet for many years. Dorothy enjoyed spending time and singing to her grandchildren and great-grandchildren that lived close to her.
Mrs. Brown was preceded in death by her husband Orville; her parents; her two sons, Kenneth Brown and Lawrence "Larry" Brown; her two granddaughters Darlyn Arbogast Roberts and Kathleen Brown Slaybaugh; her three sisters, Ruth Leis, Alma Falvo, and Gertrude Fraser; and her brother Harold Albrecht. Survivors include her son Ron Albreicht and his wife Joanne of Wynnewood, OK; her two daughters Barbara Arbogast and Sharon Foster both of Sheridan; her eleven grandchildren, twenty nine great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandson; her two sisters, Emma Fry of Sheridan and Esther Benton of Buffalo, WY; and numerous nieces and nephews.
A viewing will be held at Kane Funeral Home on Wednesday, August 6, 2003 from 7:00 pm until 8:00 pm. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, August 7, 2003, at the Immanuel Lutheran Church with Pastor William Heine officiating. Interment will follow in the Sheridan Municipal Cemetery. Kane Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.
The family has requested that memorials be made in Dorothy's name to Immanuel Lutheran Church Building Fund, or Martin Luther Grammar School, or the Senior Center in care of Karen Green, First Interstate Bank, P.O. Box 2007, Sheridan, WY 82801.
Dorothy was born on August 11, 1911, in Aurora, Illinois, to Albert and Minnie (Beckman) Albrecht. She arrived in Sheridan with her family on the train in 1915. She lived and worked at the Wagner School with schoolteacher Amelia Wagner, who taught her homemaking skills, and as a girl worked for various families in Sheridan. Dorothy also worked as a maid, babysitter, and cabin girl at the Bones Brothers Dude Ranch in Birney, Montana then later worked at the Western Coffee Shop in Sheridan. On May 11, 1940, she married Orville Lloyd Brown in Sheridan, WY. They raised their family on the Meade Creek and Bar 13 ranches. Their union was blessed with five children. Mrs. Brown cooked, gardened, and canned for her family and the ranch hands. The Browns also lived and worked at the Gallatin Dairy Ranch, Beckton and Soldier Creek and worked for the PK and Rice Wrench ranches. Dorothy was a member of the Immanuel Lutheran Church where she also taught Sunday school and bible school. She helped clean the church as well as brought in fresh flowers from her garden. Mrs. Brown cleaned houses and babysat for numerous families in the community. She housesat and babysat for Homer Scott Jr and his wife Janet for many years. Dorothy enjoyed spending time and singing to her grandchildren and great-grandchildren that lived close to her.
Mrs. Brown was preceded in death by her husband Orville; her parents; her two sons, Kenneth Brown and Lawrence "Larry" Brown; her two granddaughters Darlyn Arbogast Roberts and Kathleen Brown Slaybaugh; her three sisters, Ruth Leis, Alma Falvo, and Gertrude Fraser; and her brother Harold Albrecht. Survivors include her son Ron Albreicht and his wife Joanne of Wynnewood, OK; her two daughters Barbara Arbogast and Sharon Foster both of Sheridan; her eleven grandchildren, twenty nine great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandson; her two sisters, Emma Fry of Sheridan and Esther Benton of Buffalo, WY; and numerous nieces and nephews.
A viewing will be held at Kane Funeral Home on Wednesday, August 6, 2003 from 7:00 pm until 8:00 pm. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, August 7, 2003, at the Immanuel Lutheran Church with Pastor William Heine officiating. Interment will follow in the Sheridan Municipal Cemetery. Kane Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.
The family has requested that memorials be made in Dorothy's name to Immanuel Lutheran Church Building Fund, or Martin Luther Grammar School, or the Senior Center in care of Karen Green, First Interstate Bank, P.O. Box 2007, Sheridan, WY 82801.
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