July 21, 1925 - February 17, 2025
Irmalee Lewis Brown, 99, formerly of rural Ellsworth, passed away at 6 p.m. on Monday, February 17, 2025, at Sugar Creek Alzheimer's Special Care Center in Normal.
Her burial and graveside service will be held at 2 p.m. on Monday, February 24, 2025, at Friends Cemetery in Bentown, Illinois. Kibler-Brady-Ruestman Memorial Home in Bloomington is assisting her family with services. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be left to a charity of the donor's choice.
Irmalee was born on July 21, 1925, in Bloomington, a daughter to Murry G. and Mary (Kimler) Lewis. She attended elementary school in Gridley and high school in Ellsworth. After graduating from Illinois Wesleyan University, where she was a member of Kappa-Kappa-Gamma Sorority, Irmalee taught high school in Melvin and Danvers.
On June 11, 1950, she married Edward S. "Corky" Brown, and for sixty-eight years, until his death on November 6, 2018, she was a farmer's wife in rural Ellsworth.
Irmalee is survived by two cousins, Patsy Strawn Oman of Bloomington and Roy W. Strawn of O'Fallon, Missouri.
Online condolences and memories of Irmalee may be left for her family at kiblerbradyruestman.com.
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