Lura Brown

Lura Ann Scouton Heverly Brown was born 26 September 1924 in Dushore, Pennsylvania. She died 10 December 2016 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She is the granddaughter of Addie Utz Scouton and John Granville Scouton and of Cora Carolina Myers Heverly and Charles B. Heverly, the daughter of Rita Lura Scouton Heverly and Leonard Roy Heverly, and the sister of Leonard Scouton Heverly, all of Dushore, all departed; she is once the wife of Wilson George Brown of Paradise, always the mother of Peter Scouton Brown of Lancaster and Lura Rebekah Brown of New York City, the mother-in-law of Laurie Shigley Brown of Lancaster and of Ernest B. Remo of San Diego, and the grandmother of Christopher Scouton Remo of San Francisco, Alexander Granville Remo of New York City, Hilary Andrew Brown, departed, Aubrey Chandler Brown, and Addie Rose Brown, all of Lancaster. She graduated from Dushore High School in 1940 and from Albright College in 1944. She taught English, Spanish, and French, first at Paradise High School, later, for more than thirty years, at Octorara High School. She lived her life as a celebration of Life, and she became a teacher and an artist of human life well lived. Her heart abounded with beauty and goodness, grace and love; and she spread those gifts in her path. She was generous, and she was tasteful. She embraced with bright joy the human kindness, the decency, the goodness, the thoughtfulness, and the fair-mindedness of others. When she met the cold wind of cruelty, injustice, coarseness, and smallness, she faced it with grace and dignity, spread her wings, and soared above it. She was an inspiration to many, not least of all to her children, her grandchildren, and her students. In the simplest things of earth and sky, sea and sand, heart and soul, she saw the beauty of the Creation, and she wove the songs that they sang to her into a home and a garden for her children to dwell and to grow in. She saw in the hearts and souls and minds of her students the image of the Creator, and she treated them, one and all, as children of God learning to remember the hidden glory of the Garden. She lived every hour of her life giving of her love; and when she was shown secretly that her last hour had come, she gave herself quietly, full of peace and thanksgiving, into the arms of God. Then she did go gently—gently and nobly, humbly and faithfully—into that good Light. In lieu of flowers, you may give a gift in memory of Lura Brown to a charity of your choice or to the Modern Language Program of The Lancaster Center for Classical Studies (www.latinandgreek.org/index.php?pID=13).

Lura Brown

December 10, 2016