Beulah Lucille Mangold Brown, 99, passed away on June 13, 2014. 

She was born in Gretna, Neb., on Nov. 24,1914, to Arthur and Florence Mangold. The second oldest of seven children, she helped with childcare while her parents attended to running the small town drug store and soda fountain, which was the center of social activity.

After graduating from high school during the Great Depression, she put herself through nursing training at Nebraska Methodist Hospital in Omaha, becoming a registered nurse.

She married Benjamin Brown on June 1,1942, prior to his deployment in the South Pacific with the Seabees. Upon his return, the couple settled in Rockford, III., and raised two children. She worked as an industrial nurse and kept busy at home with household duties, cooking and canning.

In 1971 they retired to Rogers, Ark., where she lived for 40 years before moving to Kalispell in 2011 to be close to her daughter.

She was active in the Methodist Church, American Legion Auxiliary and the Eastern Star.

She was preceded in death by her husband, and is survived by son Edwin Brown of Auberry, Calif., and daughter Jeanne Hogan and husband Mark of Kalispell; grandchildren, Juniper Zacek, Benjamin Brown, Melody Brown, Stephanie Hogan and Geoffrey Hogan and wife Jena. Great-grandchildren are Annabelle Morgan and Faith Audrey Zacek.

Mrs. Brown requested to be cremated and to be returned to Nebraska. No service is planned and donations may be made to the giver's charity of choice.