Wana Wood Brown

Wana Wood Brown, most recently of Atlanta, Georgia, died peacefully on December 23, 2011. She was born on September 22, 1917 and grew up in southern Arkansas. She lived most of her adult life in Little Rock. Mrs. Brown was a dedicated first grade teacher for 37 years in the Little Rock Public School System, retiring as Primary Education Supervisor. She taught summer school at the Anthony School, as well as remedial reading at Our Lady of Good Council and Holy Souls Catholic Schools. She also taught adult literacy classes and tutored students who needed extra help. She loved the children she worked with and taught over 1,000 of them to read. Her parents, Norman N. Wood and Ava Norris Wood; her sisters, Mary Sue Baldwin and Martha Lane Wood; her brother, Pete Wood; and her husband Fred Edgar Brown predeceased her. Survivors include: her daughter, Martha Sue Cornish and Martha's husband, Pete Cornish; two granddaughters, Virginia Wood Cornish of New York City and Eleanor Cornish Chu of Boston, Massachusetts; Virginia's husband, Don Rollock, and their children, Chloe Wood, Griffin Lyndon and Isaura Wood; Ellie's husband, Brian Chu, and their son, Dylan Kirkpatrick Jiaqi; her sister by marriage, Margaret Wood; two nephews, Kenny and Gary Wood; and her niece, Patti Baldwin. The funeral service will be at 2 p.m. on Saturday, January 7, 2012 at the Camp Ground Presbyterian Church in Hampton, Arkansas, followed by burial at the Camp Ground Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, she requested that memorials be sent to the Arkansas Children's Hospital or to Christ Episcopal Church in Little Rock.