Barbara Loretta Brown of Salem, Illinois passed away December 9, 2020, on her 80th birthday at Odin Care Center in Odin. Following graduation from high school, she worked at Brown Shoe Co. formerly of Salem, Bettendorf-Stanford, Miss Elaines in Centralia, the Iuka Café and World Color Press formerly in Salem. She loved to quilt, and was of the General Baptist faith.
Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m. Monday in the chapel of Sutherland – Rankin Funeral Home in Salem with burial in Palestine Cemetery, rural Iuka, IL. Visiting hours will be from 12:00 p.m. until the service hour at the Sutherland – Rankin Funeral Home in Salem, 310 N. Broadway, P.O. Box 97, Salem, IL 62881 (618)-548-1234 entrusted with the family’s care. Due to recent health concerns, it is imperative those attending services wear masks and respect social distancing. Memorials to honor Barbara’s memory may be made to the Palestine Cemetery, or Salem General Baptist Church, and accepted by the funeral home. On line condolences may be left at sutherlandfuneralhome.com.
Surviving are her daughters, Barbara Goff of Xenia, IL, Kim (Philip) Dial of Iuka, IL and Cindy (Vernon) Rose of Kinmundy, IL along with 7 grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren. Also left to mourn her passing are her brothers Lee (Ginny) Casner of Salem, Clyde “Buck” (Alice) Casner of Iuka, and sister Bernice Winker of Freemont, Nebraska.
Born December 9, 1940 in Iuka, Illinois, she was the daughter of Samuel A. and Virginia B. (Slater) Casner. In addition to her husband and parents, she is preceded in death by an infant son Thomas Dale Sanders, a great granddaughter Nova Dial and brother-in-law Alfred Winkler. She married Lee Brown in 1991, and he preceded her in death.
