Loretta Arlene Brown

74 year old Loretta Arlene Brown of Smithville died Wednesday at Upper Cumberland Hospice House of Cookeville. She was a Baptist and formerly worked at Federal Mogul. The funeral will be Saturday at noon at the Chapel of Love-Cantrell Funeral Home. Estell Bilbrey will officiate and burial will be in DeKalb Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be Friday from 1-8 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. until the service at noon. She was preceded in death by her husband, Willard Brown; parents, Oscar and Willie Bell Johnson Shoemake; a son, Oscar Thomas Bowman; a brother, Bill Shoemake; and a sister, Patsy Carter. Survivors include two sons, Ricky and wife Judy Bowman of Gordonsville and Darrell Brown of Smithville. One daughter, Pamela Whitehead of Sparta. Four brothers, Lonnie Oscar and wife Janie Shoemake of Baxter, Willis Glenn Sandra Shoemake of Sparta, Ronnie and wife Ann Shoemake of Cookeville and Dallas and wife Virginia Shoemake of Chestnut Mound. One sister, Bonnie Smith of Cookeville. Nine grandchildren. Eight great grandchildren and the entire Brown family (children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren). Love-Cantrell Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.