Clementine Mae "Emmy" Brown

Clementine Mae Brown “Emmy” fully lived her 9 years and 11 months! She came screaming into our world, on January 12, 2009; and quietly took her last breath at home with her family, December 14. She fought bravely and with a tough, sweet smile against Glioblastoma Multiforme, brain cancer for 2 years.  She believed in fun, goodness, fashion, and living each and every day fully.

Emmy will be missed snuggling with her parents Jeff and Rebecca Brown of Brooklyn Park; planning pranks with her sister Penelope (Penny) (11) and dancing with her brother Gabriel (Gabe) (5). She will be missed hanging out with her maternal great-grandma Betty Orud, grandparents Bruce and Patricia Orud of North Oaks, and paternal grandparents Tom and Kathleen (Kitty) Brown of Zimmerman.  Her uncle Michael (Mike) Brown of Jacksonville, FL will plant the garden Emmy designed. Aunt Meghan and Uncle Josh Drivdahl may reluctantly venture with cousins Josh (12) and Konur (8) to White Castle as Princess Emmy wished. Cousin  Alma (5) and Francis (3) will honor Emmy by dressing royally with sparkle and flare as Aunt Adrienne and Uncle Jason Betchkal prepare for the ball. She will be remembered in the kitchen, creating masterpieces of art, masterful notes, tickling, dancing to her own rhythm and making friends, ( strangers are just friends I haven’t met yet ).  She will be telling crazy stories to her great grandparents, Gerald Orud, Mary and John Kromhout, Blanche and John Hazuka, Lorraine and John Brown. We know for certain that there will no longer be any family ‘secrets’ in heaven.

We will be celebrating Clementine in full color with her friends with a visitation on Tuesday from 2-3 PM and 5-6:45 PM at St. Alphonsus Catholic Church, 7025 Halifax Ave. N., Brooklyn Center, and Wednesday with visitation beginning at 9 AM and a Mass of Christian Burial at 10 AM at St. Alphonsus. Private family interment Calvary Cemetery, St. Paul.

“We’ve been given so many gifts, and we don’t know how long we get to keep them, but man — we’re going to enjoy the hell out them while we have them.” Aug 2017        Gosh, she lived well!