Grace Brown, a 94 year old Trenton, MO resident, passed away at 6:04 a.m., Thursday, April 14, 2011 at Sunnyview Nursing Home in Trenton.

Funeral services are scheduled for 1:00 p.m., Tuesday, April 19, 2011 at Resthaven Mortuary of Trenton.  Burial will be in Resthaven Memorial Gardens.  Open visitation will begin Monday morning.  Grace requested memorial donations to Wright Memorial Hospice in lieu of flowers.

Leona “Grace” Brown was born September 21, 1916 at the family farm in Brimson, MO.  She was the 7th child of Thomas Whitten and Gilly Mae Higdon Maxwell.  On July 22, 1939 she married Vermal Brown of the Blue Ridge community.  He passed away Oct. 10, 1997. Grace worked at Mattingley’s Variety Store in downtown Trenton and then Eastgate Shopping Center when the store became Matco.  She retired from the store May 4, 1979 after 26 years.  Grace enjoyed bowling at the Trenton Bowl and quilting.  She was a member of the Cat Creek Baptist Church.

Surviving relatives include her daughters Charlene Ann Smith and her husband Jim of Kansas City, MO and Janet Mae Axsom and her husband Bernard of Spickard, MO, a sister Minerva Brown of Brimson, MO, a niece Marsha Williams, a nephew Clyde Maxwell, 11 grandchildren and 20 great grandchildren.

Those preceding her in death include her parents, husband,a daughter Sharon Kay Crawford, a sister Evie Maxwell, five brothers James, Leland, John, Eugene,and Joseph Maxwell , and two nephews Jasper Maxwell and Lawrence Gale Brown.

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