Janice Wrae Brown

Janice Wrae Brown, age 91, of Gatesville, Texas, went to be with the Lord on November 10, 2024.

Funeral services will be held at 1:00 P.M. on Saturday, November 16, 2024 at Pidcoke Baptist Church with Pastor Don McConnaughhay officiating. Interment will follow at Pidcoke Cemetery. Janice’s family will receive visitors from 5:00 P.M. until 7:00 P.M. on Friday at Scott’s Funeral Home.

Janice was born in West Liberty, Kentucky on December 23, 1932, to William “Bill” and Armelva “Ira” Combs. Janice attended and graduated from Morgan County (Kentucky) Public Schools. She later went on to receive an Associate Degree in Criminal Justice from Central Texas College in Killeen, Texas.

Janice married the love of her life, Harold E. “Gene” Brown, in 1956. They were married 49 years before his passing in 2006. After Janice and Gene got married, they lived in Germany for a time while Gene was in the Army and stationed there. In 1958, they moved to Pidcoke, Texas while Gene served in the Army at Fort Hood.

Janice was a long-time employee of the Texas Youth Commission (TYC) at the Gatesville State School for Boys, serving as a matron, before later becoming a correctional officer at the Texas Department of Corrections (TDC) Gatesville Unit. She retired from the TDC on August 31, 1990. 

Janice was a devoted wife, a loving mother, a hard worker, and a generous and kind friend to all who knew her. 

She was preceded in death by her husband, Harold E. Brown, and by her brothers, Stanley Wells, Darvin Wells, and Jimmy Wells. She is survived by a sister, Betty Lykins of West Liberty, Kentucky, and sons William E. Brown and wife, Ann of Houston, Texas and Glenn T. Brown and wife, Carol of League City, Texas. She is also survived by six grandchildren, fifteen great-grandchildren, and fourteen great-great grandchildren.