Barbara Ann Holmes Brown

Barbara Ann Holmes Brown, 81, of Bryant, Ark., peacefully left this earth on Friday, April 28, 2017 at Saline Memorial Hospital in Benton, Ark. Barbara was born Oct. 26, 1935 in Little Rock, Ark., and was adopted at the age of six months into the loving and caring home of Winfred Hardy Holmes and Elsie Faye (Blundell) Holmes in Perla, Ark. Barbara graduated in 1953 from Malvern High in Malvern, Ark., and from Henderson State College with a degree in teaching. She later received her Masters from North Georgia University and taught elementary school in the Red Oak and Fayetteville, Georgia School Districts where she and Herman called Fayetteville home for many years. Barbara recently lived at Evergreen Living Center in Bryant. She was preceded in death by her husband, Herman Conrad Brown; two sons, Michael Joseph Brown and Robert Conrad Brown; and by cousins, Thomas E. Maroney and Sue Maroney Watson, from Perla, whom she thought of as her brother and sister. She is survived by "nieces and nephew" Gail Maroney Cliff of Bryant, Susan Maroney Bowers of Benton, Charles E. Maroney of Bryant, and Jill Tabor Hall, Ginger Tabor, and Jennifer Tabor Allen all of Magnet Cove, Ark. Funeral service will be at 1 p.m., Thursday, May 4, 2017 at Bryant First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Hammett Evans officiating. Interment will follow at Shadowlawn Cemetery in Malvern. The family will receive friends at noon, Thursday, one hour prior to service time at the church. In lieu of flowers, donations in Barbara's honor may be made to Bryant First United Methodist Church, 508 N. Reynolds Rd., Bryant, Ark. 72022 or Fayetteville First United Methodist Church, 175 E. Lanier Ave., Fayetteville, Ga. 30214. Arrangements by Roller-Ballard Funeral Home in Benton (501) 315-4047. Online guestbook www.rollerfuneralhomes.com/ballard.