Audrey Jean Brown

Audrey Jean Fulks Exline Brown April 12, 1933 - February 11, 2022 Audrey was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her mother, Julia, died soon after and her father Cecil was left to care and provide for his infant daughter. Cecil’s sister Clara arrived to help and the families soon decided it would be best for Clara and her husband John Exline to adopt her. Audrey moved to south Texas with her new parents and older cousin/brother Larry. She learned to play piano and flute and was in the high school band. After graduation, she went to business college in San Antonio where she earned an associate degree. In 1951 she met, dated and married Sammie T Brown. Daughter Darlene was born the following October, and sons Kenneth and Douglas came along in January 1958 and December 1960. The Air Force was Sammie’s career, so the family moved from time to time. Over the years “home” was in San Antonio, Crawford and Waco, Texas; the Azores, Portugal; and Rantoul AFB in Illinois, settling back in San Antonio when Sammie retired. While her children were young, Audrey was a homemaker and her children were always her first priority! She played piano and organ for her church and sang in the choir. She loved to sew, garden, travel and read, and spent many hours in Bible study, researching scriptures and learning. As the kids got older, she resumed secretarial work and eventually retired from Civil Service after working for various military organizations including the Electronic Security Command and the Surgeon General’s office. She moved east to be near her daughter’s family in Georgia for several years, then to St Croix, USVI, to live with her older son, Kenneth. Ken died in 2017, and later that year Audrey moved back to Georgia, where she settled in Columbus. Remembering her with love are her children Darlene (and Mike) Henley and Douglas Brown; grandchildren Brandy (and Justin) Huot, Austin (and Jamie) Brown, Brittany (and Warren) Woolfolk, Justin Brown, Dillon (and Brittany) Brown, and Maura (and Ryan) Doebbler; greatgrandchildren Sabrina Mosto, Henley Woolfolk, Owen Brown and Emmit Brown, and many friends. Knowing how much Audrey loved the ocean and being at the beach, the family will privately scatter her ashes on the Texas coast and St Croix.