Tuesday
April 23rd, 2024
3:26PM
Carolyn Moore Brown was born on December 2nd, 1928 in Boone, North Carolina to Mary Dobbin Moore and Edwin O. Moore and died peacefully on February 19th, 2020.
Her childhood was spent in various towns in North Carolina, Virginia and Georgia. She studied at UNC Greensboro (then North Carolina Women’s College) and graduated from the University of Georgia, the first in her family to graduate from college.
She married Roger H. Brown in 1952. He had proposed to her a few years before, but she told him to ask again when he had finished his college degree. They married and moved to Rome, Georgia where she taught middle school geography and coached athletic teams for four years. They then moved to Gainesville in 1956, where she would spend the rest of her life. She raised one son, Roger H. Brown, Jr.
Carolyn was strong-willed and determined in every aspect of her life. She was an avid bridge player and golfer. One of her great sources of pride was having scored three holes-in-one over her golfing career. She water skied and body-surfed well into her 60’s. She started an investment club for women in Gainesville and was an ardent student of investing. For 35 years, she was a volunteer at Northeast Georgia Medical Center and also volunteered as a reading tutor for Head Start. She was an avid gardener and made delicious pickles and fig preserves.
She enjoyed travel and visited many parts of Europe, Thailand, Kenya, South Africa, and Australia. Her first love was the ocean and she spent countless hours walking on Georgia beaches looking for sea shells – she was known for her ability to spot shark’s teeth.
She was a devoted member of Grace Episcopal Church in Gainesville.
Carolyn was predeceased by her husband Roger and her brother Tom. She is survived by her son Roger, his children Farrell, Lucas and Gracie Mason-Brown and her niece and nephews David Moore, Kelly Moore and Judy Moore Hulsman.
Celebration of Life service will be held 2:00 pm, April 4, 2020 at Grace Episcopal Church in Gainesville.
In lieu of flowers the family has requested donations be made to Eagle Ranch P.O. Box 7200 Chestnut Mountain, Georgia 30502. www.eagleranch.org/give .
Memorial Park North Riverside Chapel 989 Riverside Drive Gainesville, GA. For online condolences www.memorialparkfuneralhomes.com
