Ethel Brown Strength

June 20, 2013

Ethel Brown Strength passed away at her home in Atmore on Tuesday, June 19, 2013.  She was born on March 5, 1921 in Mineola in Monroe County, AL and was a lifelong resident of Alabama except for a brief period when she lived near Fort Bragg, N.C. during World War II. She was the ninth and youngest child born to John Wesley and Susie Lucinda (Chaudron) Brown.

During her marriage to her first husband, Fred N. Strength, which ended in divorce, three daughters were born to them, Bernice, Barbara Sue, and Montez.

Mrs. Strength first moved to Atmore with her daughter, Barbara Sue, during World War II.  Her first employer in Atmore was Bristow’s Drug Store in 1946.  She was later employed for many years by Goodwill Manufacturing Company (the Ribbon Mill) on North Main Street working there from about the time it first opened until it closed.  She retired fromVanity Fair Mills.

Since the spring of 1956, she was a faithful member of Brooks Memorial Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her parents, two daughters, Bernice and Montez, who died in

infancy, all of her brothers and sisters and their spouses, Dewey Brown (Rether), Della Whatley (Ira), Clarence Brown (Ruth), Ike Brown (Ethel), Walter Brown (Opal), Ernest Brown (Edna), Agnes Johnson (Ernest), and Fred Brown (Gladys), and her husbands, John Henry Pugh, and Leon Elijah Strength.

She is survived by her daughter, Barbara Sue Strength Post and husband, J. Wayne Post, in Helena, Montana; two grandsons, Mitchell W. Post of Ignacio, Colorado, and J. Alan Post and his wife, Sarah, and their three children, Brandon, Elizabeth, and Alexandria, and two great-great-grandchildren, all of Billings, Montana; granddaughter, Shannon Leigh Post of Talkeetna, Alaska; stepdaughter, Anne Strength McGuigan (James) and her daughter, Jennifer Allen Blanton (John) and their two sons, Aaron and Kyle of Atmore; stepson, Tim Strength, of Pace and his daughter, Alicia Strength of North Carolina; and numerous nieces and nephews, other relatives, and friends.

Services will be held Saturday, June 22, 2013, at Brooks Memorial Baptist Church in Atmore. Visitation will begin at 12 p.m. and continue until the service time at 2 p.m.

Honorary pallbearers are Mrs. Strength’s Ladies Sunday School Class.

Active pallbearers are Alan Post, Tim Strength, Vernon Brown, Ed Brown, Hubert Brown, and Aubrey Till.

Mrs. Strength will be buried at Oak Hill Cemetery.

Johnson-Quimby Funeral Home is in handling funeral services.

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Written by William Reynolds · Filed Under Obituaries