Nan Brown of Mexia passed away Wednesday, May 10, 2016 at Providence Hospital in Waco.
Nan was born in Houston on July 25, 1941, but moved to Florida while still an infant. She was always proud to say that, despite growing up in Daytona Beach, she was a native Texan.
She attended Daytona Community College and Florida State University. She was an Air Force wife and lived at many duty stations with her family, including an overseas assignment in Italy where she studied art history under Dr. Phillip Rylands, later the curator of the Peggy Guggenheim Museum of Modern Art in Venice, Italy.
Nan, a professional librarian, served as children's librarian for several years at the Gibbs Memorial Library in Mexia and subsequently as librarian in Rockport. She believed that being a children's librarian was her special calling and her first love. She began the children's summer reading program in Mexia. After retiring she was president of the Mexia Friends of the Library and a member of the Woman's Friday Club.
Nan is survived by her husband, William H. “Bill” Brown of Mexia; her son, Stanley Freeman of Carrolton; daughters, Deborah Freeman of Carrolton, and Darby Freeman of Fairfield; and five grandchildren, Geoffrey Freeman of Carrolton, Mercedes Freeman of Houston, Devin Freeman of Gonzales, Stewart Freeman of Donie, and Dalton Freeman of Mexia.
A celebration of life for Nan is pending and will be announced shortly. Please make any donations, if desired, either to Gibbs Memorial Library or to the Mexia Academic Award Fund.
Blair-Stubbs Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.