Joanne D. Brown

Funeral services will be at 2p.m. Friday, January 17, 2025 at Collier-Butler Funeral Home for Joanne Brown, 77, who passed on Wednesday, January 8, 2025. Burial will be at Rainbow Memorial Gardens. Officiating will be Bill Drummons and Lauil Thompson.

Joanne was a graduate of Gadsden High School (Class of 1965), Gadsden State Community College, Birmingham Southern, and University of Alabama at Birmingham. During her career, she served as Counselor at Southside High and taught at Episcopal Day School, Gadsden State Community College, and UAB. As a nurse, she worked in the Neonatal Intensive Care unit of UAB Hospital and traveled conducting nursing reviews for NCLEX and Kaplan.

She was most known and beloved by her Sunday School and Bible Study classes at Southside Baptist Church. Mrs. Brown enjoyed singing in the church choir, helping with dramas/cantatas, participating in the Ladies Tea, and loved to prepare her Bible Study lessons. Joanne was a lifelong learner and attended Samford University’s continuing education through the Etowah Baptist Association. Traveling to the Holy Lands in Israel was a milestone experience for her. She also enjoyed contributing to her community by working the voting polls in Southside.

She cared for students, premature babies, her children and grandchildren, many Bible Study and Sunday School students, and her parents and husband in their last years. Her last words were “I love you”, very fitting for someone who loved and served God by caring for and teaching His children all the days of her life. Her faith in the Lord and love for her friends and family shone brightly through it all.

Mrs. Brown was preceded in death by her parents, Roy and Annie Doss, and husband, James Brown. She is survived by her son, Marc Brown, daughter-in law Stacey, and grandchildren, Autumn, Tyler and Chloe, Woodstock, GA; and son, Steve Brown, daughter-in law Amy, and grandchildren John David, Hannah, and Nathan, Hokes Bluff. Pallbearers will be Steve, Marc, John David, and Nathan Brown, and special members of her Southside Baptist church family.

Special Thanks to beloved friends, Marty Askins, Andrea Dutton, Sally Robertson, Kim Clough, and church family of Southside Baptist; and Gadsden Health and Rehab, SouthernCare New Beacon Hospice, and especially Dr. Debora Reiland, and nurses Tamara Thornton, Rodney May, and Britney Hamilton.

Visitation will be from 1-2 pm.

Online condolences may be made at www.collier-butler.com