Anne Trumbull Brown

CASA GRANDE - Anne Trumbull Elwell Brown, 89, died on May 18, 2017, of a respiratory ailment at The Garnet of Casa Grande.

Mrs. Brown was born on Oct. 16, 1927, a daughter of Percy G. and Annie R. (Trumbull) Elwell of Gloucester, Massachusetts. She and her family were descendants of noted Revolutionary War painter John Trumbull, and into the 1830s her family owned most of what is now considered the greater Gloucester area. She graduated from Gloucester High School in 1945.

She held various jobs from telephone operator to secretary and worked for civil service through the 1960s. She married the love of her life, Jesse E. Brown, a year before he retired from the Navy Seabees. After retirement, she and her husband bought and managed 23 rental properties in Oxnard and Port Hueneme, California, which they sold after her husband's open heart surgery. They then embarked on what she called the "greatest time of her life" as they traveled throughout the United States and Mexico in their RV for many years before settling in Port Charlotte, Florida. In 2004 she moved to Casa Grande to be closer to surviving family. She was known as a vivacious, smart, outspoken and strong-willed woman who always put family first and strongly believed in family loyalty.

She was preceded in death by her husband; two brothers, Percy Jr. and John; and seven sisters, Louise, Bernice, Etta, May, Lois, Marion and Barbara. The last of the "Elwell Girls," she is survived by nieces and nephews and their offspring throughout the United States.

J. Warren Funeral Services, Cole & Maud The Gardens Chapel in charge of arrangements.