Ursula (Bartlett) Brown |
| Posted 2011-02-07 by Judy Wight Branson |
| The Daily Courier, Prescott, Arizona Saturday, February 05, 2011 Ursula Bartlett Brown This is official notification that on Thursday Jan. 27, 2011, at Peaceful Valley Assisted Living home in Prescott, Ariz., Ursula Bartlett Brown, 81, passed into the loving arms of Alice Sparrow, her companion of 35 years, who passed away in 2004. Ursula had Parkinson's disease. No services are planned. She requested you hold your own service of remembrance and celebrate with joy and love that she is now reunited with Alice so they can continue their 35 years together in the next life. Ursula leaves behind Ellicott Patton Reynolds of Red Bluff, Calif.; Kellogg Patton of Prescott, her professional helpful daughter (Ph.D.)/caregiver for eight years; grandson Ian N. Mattingly of Denver; and Christian Ward of Chico, Calif.; great-grandson Levi Ward; sisters Lucille Vineyard, 92, of Trinidad, Calif.; Jean Patton, 88, of Red Bluff, Calif.; Ellicott Million, 84, of Santa Barbara, Calif.; and all the special people out there who loved and appreciated the wit and candor of Ursula Brown. To further honor Ursula and her giant imprint she left in our lives and on this Earth, please gather friends together and go to Denny's for a Grand Slam breakfast. Another place she loved was Zeke's Eating Place at Frontier Village and their delicious meatloaf and mashed taters lunch. Ursula's 80th birthday cake is on the bakery display wall at the Wal-Mart's Food entrance on Gail Gardner Road. Look for the 80 Cat-Cake. There she is literally "in living color." Remember Ursula Brown with a chuckle and a smile when you talk by splitting an infinitive or dangling a participle once in awhile. Play Scrabble and use all seven letters on your last play of the game (solanine) as she did in 2003. Ursula was fluent in Spanish, Russian, and was a certified sign language interpreter. Ursula was a joy to talk to. She had a wealth of "useless" information that fueled her enthusiasm for word origins, geomorphology, volcano and earthquake tracking, using world atlases and almanacs a lot (facts never change). Ursula disliked misuse of the English language, especially "lay" and "lie," among other language adulterations common in today's verbiage. Born in 1929 in Santa Cruz, Calif., Ursula lived "dirt poor" but enjoyed life anyway. Her mother, Gladys Bartlett (Kaplanski), took all six kids out of school to go to San Francisco to watch the war ships sail under the Golden Gate Bridge. Ursula was married to Ludington Patton (20 years her senior) in 1947; divorced with two young children in 1952; re-married to Unitarian minister Rev. Wm. David Brown after meeting him at a party; she proposed after 25 minutes and they were happily married for nine years until his death in 1967 in Louisville, Ky. Ursula moved to Tucson, Ariz., in 1972 as caregiver for her 80-year old grandfather. She moved to Prescott in 1993 when her companion, Alice Sparrow, was hired by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. And, as Ursula said, "the rest is history." After cremation, Ursula's ashes will be scattered to the wind with Alice's ashes in the Chiricahua Mountains in southeastern Arizona. A big empty space is left without Ursula here, but call on her spirit often to wish her well and a safe journey. It is official now: Ursula Bartlett Brown (and Elvis) has left the building. In lieu of flowers, please make a generous contribution in memory of Ursula Brown to the Prescott Public Library, c/o Ms. Toni Kaus, 215 E. Goodwin St., Prescott, AZ 86303. Information provided by survivors. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Daily Courier, Prescott, Arizona Thursday, February 10, 2011 Ursula Bartlett Brown, 81, of Prescott, Ariz., born in 1929 in Santa Cruz, Calif., passed away Jan. 27, 2011. No services are planned. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Prescott Public Library, c/o Ms. Toni Kaus, 215 E. Goodwin St., Prescott, AZ 86303. |
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