Obituary for Jewel Brown

Ponca City Now - April 15, 2015 12:00 am

Jewel Frances Masters Brown of Edmond, Oklahoma, died Saturday, April 11, 2015, at Grace Living Center at the age of 90 years.

Services are scheduled for 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at Trout Funeral Home Chapel in Ponca City with Pastor Adam Phillips officiating. Burial will follow at Odd Fellows Cemetery. Her sons, grandchildren, and friends of the family will serve as casketbearers. Arrangements are under the direction of Trout Funeral Home & Crematory.

Jewel was born on April 27th, in Tulsa, Oklahoma to Leroy B. Masters and Edna Surrell Masters. She grew up in Ponca City while living many of her childhood years at the American Legion Children’s Home and attended Ponca City Schools. She later went Oregon and graduated from High School in Klamath Falls, Oregon. After graduation she returned to Ponca City and became an operator for Southwestern Bell Telephone Company. She married Robert L. Brown in 1945. She later became a hairdresser after graduating from Josie’s Beauty School in Ponca City. She and her husband owned and operated the Golden Acres Motel in Newkirk, Oklahoma, in the 1970’s. She Loved the Lord and was baptized with her sister-in-law Katie Gant in the Arkansas River. She enjoyed cooking for her family, sewing her own clothes, making outfits for her grandchildren, doll clothes, and wall hangings for children’s rooms. She made the best chicken and noodles and cream pies. She loved spending time with her family and friends playing games and hosting family reunions. She was a member of the First Church of God in Ponca City.

Jewel is survived by one daughter, Joyce Barker and her husband Mark, of Rogers, Arkansas, and two sons, Bob Brown, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Royce Brown and his wife Sandra, of Edmond, Oklahoma; five grandchildren, ten great grandchildren, life-long friends Katie Gant and Cloma Goldman, and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her sister, Jessie Keller, and two brothers, Porter Masters, and Dr. Paul Masters.

Source: Trout Funeral Home