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Lula Belle Brown
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January 18th, 1914 - November 30th, 2009
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11:00AM to 12:00PM on Monday, December 7th, 2009 at Emmanuel Baptist Church (map/driving directions)
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12:00PM at Emmanuel Baptist Church on Monday, December 7th, 2009 (map/driving directions)
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| Obituary: |
Lula Belle (Watts) Brown, 95, of Beloit, WI, passed away on Monday, November 30, 2009.
She was born January 18, 1914 in New Albany, MS, the daughter of Henry Wesley Watts and Nancy Scott Watts. Lula Belle came to Beloit when she was seven years old and became a student in the Beloit Public School System.
After attending school, Lula married Hubert Foster. During this union, eight children were born: four sons: Ramon, George, Stanley, and John; four daughters: Joan, Joyce, Marilyn, and Ilene. Herbert passed away at an early age.
In 1962, Lula Belle married Talfer Brown and moved to Youngstown, OH where she and Talfer lived for 15 years. While in Youngstown, she attended Kathryn Kuhlman’s Ministry, worked at Strauss Department Store, and also worked as a Dorm Mother at Villa Maria High School (a private girl’s school staffed by the Nuns of Holy Humility of Mary) for nine years. She later returned to Beloit. Shortly thereafter, Talfer passed away in 1983.
At the age of twelve, Lula Belle was baptized in the Rock River by her uncle Reverend W.W. Brown of Emmanuel Baptist Church where she was a faithful member for over 80 years. She was selected as a mother of the church in 1989. Lula Belle was also a student of the Emmanuel Bible Training Institute, a mentor for the Titus Women’s Ministry, former Sunday School Teacher and a former member of the Senior Choir.
With love for the Ministry, Lula Belle joined hands with her long-time friend, Christabel Johnson, and became a Retired Senior Volunteer Participant (RSVP). For 23 years their mission was to minister to staff, residents, and their families at various nursing homes. During this time, the two friends became known as the “Joy Bells” because they had touched so many lives and lifted so many spirits with their ministry.
Lula Belle was featured in the Beloit Daily News several times and Beloit College Magazine as a historian of the Historical Fairbanks Flats in Beloit, WI. She was well known in the community as one of only three survivors of the first generation of Fairbanks Flats residents. In 2007, she was part of the groundbreaking ceremony of the restoration of the New Fairbanks Flats Townhouses.
Lula Belle loved to travel, especially to family reunions. She made everlasting friends wherever she went. She was an avid reader, especially of her Bible and she was not ashamed to be a witness to the Lord.
She leaves to cherish her memories, her children, Stanley Foster of FL, Joan Foster, Joyce Davidson, Marilyn (C.J.) McClendon, and Ilene Williams all of Beloit, WI; one sister, Ethel Mae Monroe of Long Island, NY; two daughters-in-law, Mamie Foster of Milwaukee, WI and Laura Foster of Janesville, WI; 18 grandchildren; 32 great grandchildren; 13 great great-grandchildren; a niece and a host of nephews and cousins; special cousin, Fannie Edwards Duke (like a daughter), Bobby Burnett, Robert Gilliam, and Patricia Martin (all of whom she was like a mother to), her church family, several friends and extended family.
She was preceded in death by her parents, a brother, Johnny Watts, three sons, Ramon Foster, George (Babe) Foster, John Foster, one daughter-in-law, Glenda Foster, one son-in-law, Sammie Davidson, one granddaughter, Tracy Renee Marshall, one grandson, Tracy Davidson, and two great grandsons, William Dante Artis and Trevelle Harley.
Funeral services will be 12:00 p.m. Monday, December 7, 2009 in the Emmanuel Baptist Church with Reverend Lawrence Hoskins officiating. Burial will be in East Lawn Cemetery. Visitation will be from 11:00 a.m. until the time of service in the church. Daley Murphy Wisch & Associates Funeral Home and Crematorium 2355 Cranston Road, Beloit, WI, assisted the family with arrangements.
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East Lawn Cemetery
2200 Milwaukee Road
Beloit, WI 53511 (map/driving directions)
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