Ivy Brown 
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Saturday Morning, February 10,2007 
Eleven Oclock a.m. 
fflSTORICAL MT. PLEASANT MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH 
Claxton, Ga. 
Reverend L. Perry McNeal, Pastor/Officiating 
Order of Service 
~ P'uioM. ~ 
Prayer of Comfort........................................Minister 
Scripture Readings.......................................Minister 
Old Testament.....................................Psalms 23: 1-6 
New Testament.....................................St John 14:1-6 
Selection..................................Sister Odessa Marshall 
Reflections (please limit to 2 minutes).........Family and Friends 
Acknowledgements and Obituary.............Moodys Funeral Home 
Selection..................................Sister Odessa Marshall 
Eulogy...................................Reverend L. Perry McNeal 
Recessional.....................................Family & Friends 
Interment: Historic Mt. Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church 
Claxton, Ga. 
Palbearers: 
Family and Friends 
Friends are invited to join the family for repast at the church 
fellowship hall. 
Ivy^s Obituary 
vy Brown, son of Willie Mae Brown Hagan and the late John Lester 
Brown Sr., was bom on November 21, 1948 in Tattnall County, Georgia. He 
departed this life on January 31, 2007. 
Ivy was educated in Evans County Training School. He graduated from 
Edison High School in Elizabeth, NJ. 
He was a hard working man highly skilled in carpentry. He was employed 
for many years beginning with Custom Decorating Inc. in Keamy NJ, Allen 
Industries in Rahway, NJ, Phoenix Sons in Newark, NJ, Evans Rules, in 
Elizabeth NJ and retired from Exxon Oil in Linden, NJ. 
In 1968, Ivy met Florence M Hubbard and they were united in matrimony on 
August 26, 1969 and to this union, three children were bom. He was a 
loving and devoted husband, father and grandfather who always shared his 
love with a smile and a hug. He truly cared for all of his family. He was 
known to be generous to a fault. He just loved everyone and never wanted to 
see anyone in need. 
Ivy was the seventh of ten children. He is predeceased by one sibling, 
Lucuis Brown. He leaves to cherish his memory, his loving wife, Florence 
M. Brown, his three daughters, Sonja D. Johnson and husband Robert, Tonja 
C. Rice and husband Alphonso and Yolanda L. Brown; His mother, Willie 
Mae Brown Hagan, four sisters, June Helen Clark, Freddie Mae Lewis and 
husband Lester, Leila Brooks and husband James, Mary L. Mackey, four 
brothers, Norman Brown, Ernest Brown and wife Annette, Alphonso Brown 
and wife Bernice, and John Lester Brown Jr., daughter-in-law, Ann Brown, 
the wife of the late Lucuis Brown, eight grandchildren, Terrell K. Ivy 
Walker, TyGee and Tahsaan Woods, Joshua A. Rice, Baheim Doyle, Javan 
N. Johnson, Robert A Johnson II and James E. Johnson, two Godchildren, 
Telly Vestal and Na-Na Scott, one loving aunt, Sula Moody, a special cousin, 
Waymon Moody and a host of nieces, nephews, other loving relatives and 
special friends. He will be missed but never ever forgotten. 
What can we say but THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH! 
The Brown family would like to take this time to say thank you for 
your love, your support and timely prayers. Because of the love of 
God and your selflessness, we are strengthened. We ask that you 
continue to pray for our inner strength as we go through lifes 
journey. Dad taught us to be strong women and to strive for 
success in all that we do. His motto for us would be these words: 
7 am the best, 
And better than all the rest.  
Services rendered by: 
MOODYS FUNDERAL HOME 
201 Church Street 
Claxton, Ga 30417 
Programs by: APDEC & the Brown Family