Renee "Penny" Brown

May 20, 1955 - June 7, 2022


On June 7, 2022, the Yahweh requested another Angel to sing in the Heavenly Choir Renee. From the day that God created her, she was special. She was born on May 20, 1955, in Rock Island, IL. Weighing only 2 lbs. 4 oz, she spent 3 1/2 months in the incubator. When she was finally able to come home, her father looked at her and said, “you cost me a pretty penny.” Therefore, her nickname was “Penny.”

After she was married, she never used that name. Her husband, however, would use it when he was mad at her. She met her husband while attending Bell High School in Bell, California back in “72 and was married in 1973. When we announced our engagement, her mother’s response was “you're stealing my baby.”

During the next 15 years, she would complete almost one year of college. College was not her cup of tea. She found herself working miscellaneous jobs until she found the greatest job of all, being the mother of her adopted son, Phillip. She often said it was the hardest job, but the most wonderful job she ever had.

After Phillip graduated from high school, she worked for eight years at Thrifty Wright Drugs as the assistant manager. The last 15 years, she worked in housekeeping for three different Medical Centers before being diagnosed with liver cancer.

In 1984, she received an unexpected, but wonderful surprise in her life when her husband was called into the ministry and now, she was to take on the role of the pastor's wife. In 1990, with the finalization of the adoption of her son, she found herself leaving the big city of Los Angeles to a little desert community of 1200 people in New Mexico. It was a shock for her. From there, she would see different states, including Oklahoma, Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and finally Montana. She often said, “Never will I go back to the south.” She never had any regrets being a pastor’s wife.

As she started out in life with a difficult surrounding, so she ended her life with a difficult surrounding battling with her cancer.

She is survived by her husband, Rick; son, Phillip; one sister; one brother; and countless cousins.

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