Angie Verdean Barnett Brown, seventy-eight, of Waurika, Oklahoma, passed from this life December 30, 2007, in the Jefferson County Hospital. She was born November 5, 1929, in Comanche, Oklahoma, to Charley and Mamie Dunn Barnett. She attended Comanche High School up to her junior year when she dropped out to marry Bob Brown.

Mrs. Brown was a lifelong resident of Comanche, except for a year and a half when she moved around with Mr. Brown while he worked in the oilfields. She was a charter member of the Comanche Rebekah Lodge, a member of the Womens' Club, the 49er's Club, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Lions Club. She worked at Opal's Style Shop, the drugstore on Main Street, and owned two flower shops - one in 1974 named the Comanche Tepee and one in the '80s called Dean's Flowers.

She was preceded in death by her mother in 1971, her father in 1962, her beloved husband in 1996, and a grandson who died at birth.

Survivors include: her son Daniel Brown and his wife of Duncan, OK; her daughter Robbie and her husband Bret Bernethy of Waurika, OK; two grandchildren - Krystal Henderson of Comanche, OK, and Robert Wayne Davis of Comanche, OK; three great-grandchildren - James Matthew Smith, Whitney Lynn Davis, and Mason Luke Houston; one brother-in-law - Jack Brown of Comanche, OK; two nieces - Debbie Carr and Sandi Odom; and several cousins including Wilma Fitzgerald and Linda Bailey.

A memorial service for Mrs. Brown will be at 1:30 PM, Tuesday, January 3, 2008, at the Ray of Hope Church in Comanche with Dow Pannell officiating.