June 26, 1942 – June 29, 2024

Charlotte Rose (Butler) Brown passed away and went to Heaven on June 29, 2024. She was born June 26, 1942, in Wills Point to Clarence and Lorene (Pittman) Butler and was a proud graduate of Canton High School. She married former DPS officer Guy Brown in 1968 and they had one son, Jonathan Guy Brown.

After a short time in Houston, they moved to Athens, and she spent most of the rest of her life living in Athens and Canton. She was employed by the Athens Independent School District for almost 30 years, most of which was being the Secretary and Administrative Assistant at South Athens Elementary where she made countless friends that she loved and enjoyed serving and taking care of all the students.

She was a member of Teel Church of Christ in Canton where she was baptized as a teenager and later a longtime member of Eastern Hills Church of Christ in Athens. In her later years, she enjoyed attending Southcliff Church in Fort Worth with her family where she made several new friends and grew in her Faith. In her spare time when she wasn’t visiting family and friends and being social, she loved to go shopping and antiquing and really enjoyed First Monday Trades Days in Canton.

When she was in Athens, she was a member of the school’s PTA and PTO, Athens Lions Club, and a ‘Reach to Recovery’ volunteer for the American Cancer Society, an endeavor which she took very seriously because she felt it was her duty to help others with cancer as a survivor herself of breast cancer in 1976. In late 2021, she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and began hospice care. Charlotte was a fighter and she lived for OVER 2 years with no issues and had the determined goal of seeing both of her ‘favorite grandchildren’ graduate high school which she did. Those of you that knew her knew she was always so full of life, fun and energy, and she will greatly be missed. She dearly loved her grandkids, very much loved her daughter-in-law just as her daughter, and she was just the best Mom to her son and loved and was always in their corner. She even loved her two Gran-dogs a lot too. Don’t anyone reading this say “Poor Charlotte” because at the moment she stopped breathing because of her trust in Jesus she is now in Heaven with Jesus and is more alive than any of us. We’ll all miss her until we can see her again.

Special thanks to Bethesda Gardens Assisted Living Community Staff and Nurses and Reliant Hospice for all their wonderful help taking care of her these last two years. They were a blessing.

She is survived by her son Jonathan Guy Brown and wife, Jessica, of Aledo; grandchildren, Meredith and Connor, and many cousins, neighbors and friends she dearly loved.

Charlotte was preceded in death by her parents, Clarence and Lorene Butler, former husband Guy Brown, and her cousin she considered a sister, Betty Malone of Friendswood.

A Memorial Service celebrating Charlotte’s life will be held on Saturday, July 20, 2024, at 10 a.m. at Carroll-Lehr Funeral Home in Athens. Visitation will be Friday July 19 from 5-7 p.m.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in Charlotte’s memory to the American Cancer Society.