Johnnie Mac Brown, 56, of Fork Union, VA, passed away Sunday, February 8, 2009, at his home.

Johnnie was born September 24, 1952, in Fluvanna County, the son of the late Edgar S. Brown Sr. and Dorothy Carter Brown. At the death of his biological mother, his aunt, Nellie Lewis, and the late Curtis Lewis, raised Johnnie as their only son.

He leaves to mourn his memories, his wife, Brenda Brown; his "mother", Nellie Carter Lewis; three sons, Shawn Williams of Fredericksburg, VA, Maurice Brown of Palmyra, VA, and Johnnie A. Brown and Shawna of Fork Union, VA; one daughter, Trena Brown and J.J. of Palmyra, VA; seven grandchildren; three brothers, Robert and his wife, Fannie, Edgar and his wife, Gertrude, and Broadus and his wife, Gail, of Palmyra, VA; five sisters, Novella Haywood and Ella Brown of Washington DC, Joyce Lewis and her husband, George, and Barbara Stanton and her husband, John, of Fork Union, VA, and Rose Taylor and her husband, John, of Palmyra, VA; one uncle, Howard Lewis of Fork Union, VA; mother and father-in-law, Curtis and Emma Armstrong of Bremo Bluff, VA; two sisters-in-law, Elaine Brown of Palmyra, VA, and Diane Garrett and her husband, Greyland, of Bremo Bluff, Va; three brothers-in-law, Jerry Anderson and his wife, Teresa, of Charlottesville, Va, Curtis L. Armstrong of Kent Store, Va, and Kelvin Armstrong and his wife, Yvonne, of Palmyra, Va; a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

Funeral services were held 2pm on Saturday, February 14, 2009, at Cloverdale Baptist Church, with the Reverend Phillip A. Carter officiating.

The family received friends from 7pm until 8pm Friday, February 13, 2009, at Colbert Funeral Home, Bremo Bluff, Virginia.

Published in the Daily Progress on February 12, 2009