Mary Frances Brown
Posted: May 26, 2018
Mary Frances Aldridge Brown, age 90, of Caledonia, MS, passed away May 25, 2018, at her residence. Funeral services will be Sunday, May 27, 2018, at 2:00 PM at New Salem Baptist Church, 7086 Wolf Road with Bro. Billy Abrams officiating. The interment will immediately follow at Woodlawn Cemetery. Visitation will be from 12:30 PM until the time of the service. Memorial Gunter Peel Funeral Home & Crematory College St. location is in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Brown was a member of New Salem Baptist Church, she was born on Tuesday, May 1, 1928, to the late Clyde Aldridge and Hattie Sue Richards Aldridge. Most of her forty seven years as a nurse, Mary Frances worked as a surgical technician at Doster Hospital, Lowndes General Hospital, and Baptist Memorial Hospital. In addition to her parents, Mary Frances was preceded in death by her aunt and uncle, Myrtis Richards Gibson and Metro Richards; and her cousins, Chandler Richards, Neal “Cooter” Richards, Jennings Richards, and Zelona Richards Maturna. Mary Frances is survived by her daughters, Missie Gary (Emery) of Amory, MS, and Melanie Abrams (Steve) of Caledonia, MS; grandson, Richard White of Caledonia, MS; brother, Tony Aldridge (Marylin) of Eads, TN; niece, Chantele Aldridge; cousins, Marylin Jo Erwin, Brenda Dodson, Cinda Parra Landrum, Dale Parra, and Sheila Fortner. Pallbearers will be Tommy Vaughn, Donald Ming, Mike Aldridge, B. A. “Sonny” Atkins, Doug Holliman, Dale Parra, Bruce Erwin and John Dodson. Memorials may be made to Woodlawn Cemetery Fund, C/O Jim Vaughn, 7712 Hwy 12 East, Steens, MS, 39766.