Rene Elnora Eldridge Brown

Daily Argus Observer (Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon)

Tuesday, April 21, 1981

BOISE - Services for Rene Elnora Brown, 88, formerly of Fruitland, who died Sunday in a Boise hospital will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Shaffer-Jensen Chapel, Fruitland by the Rev. Earl Traughber of the Church of the Brethren, Fruitland and Martin Gauby of Mountain View Church of the Brethren, Boise. Interment will follow in Riverside Cemetery, Payette.

She was born Jan. 8, 1893, in Dunlap, Kan. to A.D. and Olive Eldridge. She moved to Fruitland with her family in 1909. She married Lyle M. Brown on May 29, 1918 in Fruitland. They lived in Fruitland then moved to Boise in 1980. She was a life member of the Church of the Brethren, Fruitland.

Survivors include her husband of Boise, a son, Kenneth H. of Seaside, Ore. a daughter, Mrs. Sam (Helen) High and a sister, Mrs. John Metzler, both of Boise; six grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by six brothers and six sisters.

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