Individual Details
Wanda Arlene Brown
(29 Aug 1927 - 11 Aug 2009)
Events
| Birth | 29 Aug 1927 | Covelo, Mendocino, California, United States |  | ||
| Marriage | 26 Nov 1945 | Santa Rosa, Sonoma, California, United States - Harold Cummins Dunlap | | ||
| Death | 11 Aug 2009 | Santa Rosa, Sonoma, California, United States |  | ||
| Burial | Valley View Cemetery, Covelo, Mendocino, California, United States |
Families
| Spouse | Harold Cummins Dunlap (1911 - 2005) |
| Child | Living |
| Child | Living |
| Father | Albert Andrew "Rink" Brown (1900 - 1976) |
| Mother | Vina Elizabeth Pettis (1906 - 1969) |
| Sibling | Norma Fay "Nonie" Brown (1930 - 1994) |
| Sibling | Dolores Evelyn Brown (1937 - 2013) |
Notes
Death
Ukiah Daily JournalIn the early hours of August 11 Wanda Arlene Dunlap passed peacefully from this life after a long illness. Her final years were spent in Santa Rosa at Brighton Gardens Assisted Living but her home was in Covelo where she was born August 29, 1927 to Rink and Vina Brown. Her school years were spent at Round Valley Grammar School and then in 1941 Arlene's family moved to Central Valley where her father worked on Shasta Dam. She graduated from Shasta High School in 1944 and moved back to Covelo where she worked as a telephone operator until marrying Harold Dunlap in 1945. She helped him with his dairy business, then worked at Hurt and Bailey General Store. In 1966 she began work at the US Post Office as clerk, a rural carrier, then acting postmaster. She retired from the post office in 1988. She was active in the Assembly of God Church, loved to do crossword puzzles, and spend as much time as possible traveling with friends and family. She took loving care of her husband Harold until his death in 2005.
Endnotes
1. Brown, Florena (Wisely)., Family history on Brown, Cummins, English, Lovejoy, and related families. (Tryon, OK: Florena Brown, 1994).
2. Brown, Florena (Wisely)., Family history on Brown, Cummins, English, Lovejoy, and related families. (Tryon, OK: Florena Brown, 1994).