Name: Gwendolyn Jewell Netherly Brown
Date of Birth: April 20, 1937
Place of Birth: Schulenburg, Texas
Christian Experience: St. Paul Baptist Church, Texarkana, Texas
Education: E.A. Greer School, El Campo, Texas
Prairie View A&M University
Bachelor of Arts in Music (1962)
Master of Education (1966)
Master of Education (1975)
East Texas State University, Texarkana, Texas
Master of Science (1977)
East Texas State University, Commerce, Texas
Master of Education (1979)
Career: Texarkana Arkansas School District #7 (30 years)
including Mandeville School, Carver School, North Heights Jr. High, and W. T. Daniels. She served as a teacher, diagnostician, and special education director.
Liberty Eylau ISD (13 years)
Liberty Eylau Middle School
Marriage: The late Melvin Brown, Jr. March 1963
Life's Departure: Tuesday, June 11, 2024
Christus St. Michael Hospital, Texarkana, Texas
Gwendolyn is preceded in death by: her husband, Melvin Brown, Jr.; mother, Mrs. Merce Dee Gipson; father, Reuben Netherly; god-daughters, Christian L. G. Pierson Chatman and Linda Jackson-Riddle.
Precious Memories are Shared By: daughter, Lana Mayberry; god-daughters, Jeanetta Burkins of Texarkana, Arkansas and Shirley Graham of Texarkana, Texas; god-son, Gabriel Pierson, Sr. of Houston, Texas; god-grandchildren, Ahmad (A.J.) T. Cherry, II and Nicholas Jackson of Texarkana, Texas, Marvin Jackson of Vista, California, Ahja Cherry Tillman, and Gabriel Pierson, Jr. of Abilene, Texas; god-great-grandson, Joe A. "Joe Joe" Dixon of Shreveport, Louisiana; god-great-granddaughters, Melissa Dixon Harrison of Shreveport, Louisiana and Tawakoni Washington Heath of Texarkana, Texas; special cousins, Gayla Cranford and the Johnson Family of Texarkana, Texas and Roshun E. Williams of Schulenburg, Texas; special friends, Marjorie Kelley, Mrs. Thelma Byrd, Mrs. Hattie Edwards, and Mrs. Mattie Dixon and the Dixon Family; and a number of other relatives and friends.

Funeral services will be 1:00 PM Thursday, June 20th, 2024 at the St. Paul Baptist Church. Visitation will be held 5:00 to 7:00 PM Wednesday at Haynes Mortuary. Online registration is available at www.haynesmortuary.com.