LaVonne Dorine (Webb) Brown

December 14, 1922 - November 1, 2017

LaVonne D. Brown, 94, of Central City died Wednesday, November 1, 2017 at Cottonwood Estates in Central City. Funeral Services will be held on Monday, November 6, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. at the Central City United Methodist Church with Reverend Tom Lucas officiating. Visitation will be Sunday, November 5 from 5-7 p.m. at Solt-Wagner Funeral Home. Burial will be in the Central City Cemetery. Memorials are suggested to the Central City United Methodist Church. Condolences may be sent to the family at www.soltwagnerfuneral.com LaVonne Dorine was born on December 14, 1922 at the farm home in Stevens County Kansas to Stell Russell Webb and Verla Johnson Webb. She grew up in Stevens County attending country school and then graduating from Hugoton High School in 1941. She married Richard Leslie Brown on June 22, 1941 at Montezuma, Kansas. They lived and farmed in Stevens County. Three children were born. In 1954 the family moved to Jefferson County, Nebraska. They moved to Merrick County in 1958, purchasing a farm west of Central City. In 1975 they moved into Central City. LaVonne was a member of the United Methodist Church, United Methodist Women, the Wesleyan Group, Grand Island Earth Science Society and the Merry Wives Extension Club. In Kansas she belonged to an extension club and Clover Leaf Grange. LaVonne loved traveling, letter writing and keeping in touch with many friends and relatives. She and her husband enjoyed rock hunting, rock club friends, and helping with rock and gem shows and Swap Meets. She enjoyed embroidering, quilting and other types of sewing. She loved scrapbooking, creating many albums of trips, photos and her children’s, grandchildren’s, great grandchildren’s activities. She kept a journal of her daily activities until her death. She is survived by two sons and daughter-in-laws, Larry Duane (DeVonne) Brown, Richard Eugene (Susan) Brown; one daughter and son-in-law, Cheryl Vonne (Murray) Fowler; seven grandsons, Kevin, Brian, Darrin, Keith and Steve Brown, Jeffry and Jason Johnson; one granddaughter Jennifer (Brown) Waterman; two step grandsons, Dennis and Craig Schuett; 21 great grandchildren; seven great-great grandchildren; two step great-great grandchildren; and one sister, Alda Mae Stapleton of Liberal, KS. She is preceded in death by her husband, Richard; her parents; daughter-in-law Phyllis Brown; two brothers, Verl and Delmer Webb; one brother-in-law Clifford Stapleton; two sister-in-laws, Viola Webb and Lenora Webb.