Dorothy E. Franks Brown
McClellandtown
Dorothy E. Franks Brown, 101, of McClellandtown, passed away Tuesday, February 25, 2025, in her home, surrounded by her loving family.
She was born February 9, 1924, in Uniontown, a daughter of the late Mahlon Franks and Mattie Hostetler Franks.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, James O. Brown; brothers, D. Herbert Franks, William Jesse Franks and Michael Mahlon Franks, Jr.; and sisters, Ruth Franks, Emily Moser and Martha Camlin.
Dorothy was a 1942 graduate of South Union High School and completed two years of business school.
She was a member of Asbury United Methodist Church, where she sang in the choir and was a member of the United Methodist Women.
Dorothy worked as a secretary/bookkeeper for Albert Gallatin Home Health Care until her retirement at age 82.
She was a member of the Sweet Adelines. She enjoyed reading James Patterson and Clive Barker, but Dorothy’s greatest joy was spending time with her family. Dorothy passed her love of music on to her children.
Left to cherish her memory are her children, Deborah Simon (Jerome), J. Alan Brown (Linda), Rebecca Chapley (Keith), and Barbara Cramer (Paul); 11 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren.
Arrangements have been entrusted to the ANDREW D. FERGUSON FUNERAL HOME & CREMATORIES, INC., 80 Morgantown Street, Uniontown, where family and friends will be received from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, March 1 and 2. Visitation will continue from 9 until 10 a.m., when a service celebrating Dorothy’s life will be held Monday, March 3, in St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, with the Rev. Kevin Anderson officiating. Interment will follow in Jacobs Lutheran Cemetery.
The family suggests donations, in memory of Dorothy, to St. Jude Research Hospital, 332 North Lauderdale, Memphis, TN 38105 or at www.stjude.org; Shriners Children’s Hospital, 2900 N. Rocky Point Drive, Tampa, FL 33607 or at donorrelations@shrinenet.org; Tunnels to Towers, 2361 Hylan Blvd., Staten Island, NY 10306 or at t2t.org; or St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, gofundme.com Christ Chapel at Chalk Hill.
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