Obituary of Earline Degges Evans Brown

Funeral services for Earline Degges Evans Brown are scheduled for 11 AM Saturday, February 24, 2024, at Cherry Ridge Baptist Church, with Bro. Dennis Hackler officiating. Private interment will follow in Pine Grove Baptist Cemetery, under the direction of Golden Funeral Home. The visitation will be held Saturday, prior to the service, beginning at 10 AM. Earline Brown, a former resident of Bastrop, LA, and current resident of Watson, LA, passed away Thursday, February 15, 2024, at the age of ninety-seven. She was a former member of Cherry Ridge Baptist Church and had retired as a Vice President of Bastrop National Bank after thirty-seven years of service. Great memories through the years were created with her family. She loved and stayed close to her parents, her siblings, nieces and nephews, and her extended family by marriage over the years. Earline loved serving her community helping her customers and coworkers for so many years at the bank. Always active in her church, she served at different periods of her life in the choir, teaching Sunday School, working with young adults, or the youth. During her years at Cherry Ridge Baptist, she loved playing in the Bell Choir and helping support their Christmas Child Shoebox Ministry, even continuing that support from South Louisiana. The past two and a half years living with her daughter and family, Earline became a beloved member of the Ladies Joy Sunday School Class and the Thursday Ladies Bible Study Prayer Group at Amite Baptist Church. She touched lives wherever she lived or served, and her sweet smile will truly be missed here on earth. Earline is survived by her daughter, Toni Evans McKee, and husband Wayne, of Watson, LA; granddaughters, Amanda Jones, and husband Jason, Melanie Stevens, and husband Lance, Colleen Staton, and husband Brandon; great-grandchildren, Josie Jones, Finley Stevens, Darcy Stevens, Evan Staton, Landon Staton, Marlee Staton, Collin Staton; step children, Renee Brown Hinton, and husband Mike, Larry Brown, and wife Tani, Jerry Brown, and wife Sandra. She is preceded in death by her first husband, Russell Herman Evans; her second husband, Earl W. Brown; her parents, Cookman Degges, Robbie Harrison Degges, brothers Leon Degges, Fulton Degges; sisters, Agnes Hopkins, Leola Rice, Irma Jean Degges, Betty Jo Goodwin. Serving as pallbearers will be Robby Goodwin, Wayne McKee, Jason Jones, Lance Stevens, Brandon Staton, Evan Staton. Auxiliary: Dillon Goodwin