Lillian Mae Brown, age 73, of Cedar died March 2, 2017 at home. A memorial visitation will be held to honor her life from 4:00 – 7:00 P.M. Friday, MARCH 17th at Strike Funeral Home – Isanti Chapel.
Lillian “Lil” Mae Brown, born January 22, 1944 to John & Arlie (Pepper) Butler, passed peacefully on March 2, 2017 with her children, grandchildren & great grandchildren at her side. She was preceded in death by her husband, Bryan, last May. Lillian worked for many years in the healthcare field. She was dedicated to her family and especially enjoyed celebrating Christmas with them. She loved sewing quilts, cooking, baking cookies with her grandkids, and playing with her great grandbabies. Lillian was a best friend, a loving wife & mother, a wonderful sister & aunt. She will be deeply missed by many friends and her surviving family; siblings, Vivian (Arthur) Wright, and John (Barbara) Butler and family; her children, Michelle (Scott) Muehlberg, Colleen (Nathan) Bray, and Matthew Brown; step-sons, James (Suzanne) Schilling, and Thomas Schilling; grandchildren, James (Caylin) Muehlberg, Shanna (Ben) Cassidy, Andi (Nick) Linn; and great-grandchildren, Nathan, Jameson, Dylan, Addison & Calisyn.
Lillian was SO grateful to her granddaughter Andi for being “Grandma’s voice” and “rock” through her many medical appointments. She appreciated ALL of her grandchildren who so tirelessly assisted her during her long courageous battle against cancer. Lillian left us too soon to follow her husband to their eternal home just nine short months after he first left us. We love you MOM…always, forever…
I will miss you so very much. Thank you for being a big part in my life. Also let me care you. I’m glad the kids were able to met their great grandma, and were able to spend quality time with you. Everyday will be hard without but I know you will be there with us. Always in my heart. Love you so so much.
Mom, my heart is broken…I will miss you every day! Thank you for your unfailing love for me and all you taught me. You were one of the strongest women in my life. I cherish all of our special moments and secrets – toot! toot!
I love you always, forever…
Beener
Miss you so much grandma. I can’t believe your gone. You fought a good fight. You showed me to never give up on the things that I believe in. I will miss that joyful laugh,an amazing smile. Your in great hands, the lord will take great are of you. I will cherish all the laughs, and trips we took. I will always remember our christmas cookie making days. the times we would get frustrated with the cookie press, but we always would laugh. So many memories that I will carry in my heart the rest of my life. Not a day will go by that i will never forget you. You are my angel. Always a caring heart. I will definitely share our wonder memories we shared with my kids so they know they had amazing grandma and grandpa that now are there angels.
love you so very much grandma.Always in my heart.
Aunt Lil, you will be missed! You and Uncle Bryan always brought us so much joy when you visited. We looked forward to seeing you and hearing your antique-ing adventures with Aunt Viv. God has taken you too soon, and I am saddened that your life with us was too short, but I am grateful to know you are in Uncle Bryan’s arms.
Michelle, Colleen, Matt, James, Shanna and Andi- please know how truly sorry I am that I can’t be with you to celebrate Aunt Lil’s life and reminisce about our memories of her. Although we haven’t seen each other often over the years, I truly think of Aunt Lil, Uncle Bryan and all of you often. I have fond memories of visiting you when I was a kid and playing with the dogs in the back yard. I especially loved when all of you came here for the reunion, it seems like just yesterday that James was carrying Anna around. It’s hard to believe so much time has passed.
As I said, I think of you often and I am sending you all thoughts and love as you go through this hard time. I love and miss you!!
Mom I love you and miss you everyday ! I am so honored that you asked me to be there with you , I would never trade the last few weeks . You were my anchor and strength and I now feel lost . I wish that I could turn back time , but I know you and dad are together and healthy . I truly will miss baking with you and just talking to you . I wish you could be here to watch your great grand kids but I know dad and you their guardian angels❤️💖 I love you !!
We wonder where grandma is? (Grandma go? In Dylan’s words) we will always remember you. We are glad to have so many people to tell us and share memories with. We will miss grandmas rock a by lullaby, and rocked sleep in your arms, glad we had the days with spend with you. Love your grand babies