Arline Violet Brown

After a ten-year struggle with dementia, Arline Violet Sletten Brown passed peacefully through this life on October 25, 2014 at the age of 93 In Chesterfield, Missouri. Arline was born February 10, 1921 in Superior, Wisconsin and was the oldest child of Milan Walter Sletten and Amanda Ovidia Thompson Sletten. She grew up in Superior, graduating from Superior State Teachers College in 1942 prior to teaching Latin in the Sun Prairie, Wisconsin schools. During those years she met Orville Roy Brown from North Branch, Minnesota who was an engineering assistant with the Milwaukee Road Railway and a musician with a dance band. They were married in White Plains, New York and traveled the country with the railroad, as Orville was reassigned to various tasks throughout the country. After their son Jack was born, Arline and Orville lived in North Branch, Minnesota for three years, and in St Louis, Missouri for two years where Orville was transferred by the railroad. Finally they moved to Houston, Texas in 1955 where they enjoyed the warm climate and friendly people for 48 years before returning to St. Louis to be with family as they aged. Arline enjoyed growing up in Superior and especially remembered picnics in Pattison Park, Lake Nebagamon, and Amnicon Falls. In Houston, Arline did volunteer work at MD Anderson Cancer Center, was active with the Shrine Bowlers and the 25 Investment Club, and enjoyed the many close friends she made in Houston. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Orville Brown, her brother Howard Sletten, and her sister-in-law Hazel Brown Dahlstrom. Arline is survived by her son Jack Brown (Loretta Go) of St. Louis, Missouri, her grandson Max Brown of Algonquin, IL, her brother-in-law Chet Brown, and her sister-in-law Mae Brown Lindstrom. A funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, November 8, 2014 at the Olson Funeral Chapel in Rush City, MN. A time of visitation and reviewal is planned for one hour prior to the service also at the Olson Funeral Chapel. The interment will be in the Trinity Lutheran Cemetery of North Branch. Memorials may be directed to the Trinity Lutheran Cemetery of North Branch. Arrangements for Arline Brown are entrusted to the Funeral and Cremation Service of Rush City, Olson Chapel. www.funeralandcremationservice.com