Frances "Sara" Brown

Mrs. Frances "Sara" Anderson Brown, age 91, Mt. Zion Road, Warthen, passed away peacefully at her home July 3, 2021.   A funeral service celebrating her life will be held on Monday, July 5th at 11:00 a.m. at Bethlehem Baptist Church with burial in the Church Cemetery.  Reverend Tim Powell and Reverend Dr. Anthony Baker will officiate.   Pallbearers will be Terry Anderson, Rogers Anderson, Garyth Everett, Bobby Anderson, Shannon Anderson, Greg Anderson and Andy Rasch.  Mrs. Brown's great grandsons will serve as honorary pallbearers.

Mrs. Brown was a native and lifelong resident of Washington County and the thirteenth child of the late John Anderson and the late Mary Sally Whitley Anderson.  She graduated from Sandersville High School where she excelled in basketball.  Mrs. Brown began her working career as a salesclerk for Perlings Department Store and Union Dry Goods prior to discovering a lifetime love of sewing and working as a seamstress for Royal Manufacturing. In the seventies, Mrs. Brown was instrumental in establishing her family's restaurant business, Brown's Barn in Warthen and Brown's Restaurant in Sandersville.  She became the backbone of these businesses' and was well known for all her homemade desserts.  Mrs. Brown was a member of the Bethlehem Baptist Church.  She loved being on her porch and in her yards especially picking up and shelling pecans.  Her son, Jodie Lamar Brown and grandchildren, Joey Riner Brown and Dawn Marie Miles all predecease her.

Survivors include, her children, Phyllis B. Bussell and her husband Henry, Phil Brown Jr., Patti Brown Anderson and her husband Andy and Michael Ray Brown all of Warthen, her daughter-in-law Lynn Brown of Sandersville; grandchildren, Liz Ridgeway, Scott Bussell, Clay Bussell, Phil Brown III, Charlie Brown, Amber Anderson, Jessica Estill, Christopher Brown, Brianna Brown and Jodie Brown; 18 great grandchildren; and her caregivers, Mary Ann Bass, Dianne Johnson and Altheia "Stick" Miles.

The family will be at the Brown residence on Mt. Zion Road, and they will greet friends Monday from 10:00 a.m. until the hour of service at Bethlehem Baptist Church.

Donations may be made to the Bethlehem Baptist Church Cemetery Fund, P.O. Box 85, Warthen, GA 31094.

May and Smith Funeral Directors is in charge of these arrangements. Condolences may be made at www.mayandsmithfuneraldirectors.com