Agnes Holland Brown Brock
June 2, 1931
November 2, 2024
Celebration of Life
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
11:00 AM
Serenity Funeral Home, Beulaville
with visitation one hour before service
Burial services will be private.
Rose Hill, NC
Agnes Holland Brown Brock of the Pasture Branch community, Rose Hill, NC gained the angel wings we all knew she invisibly wore here on earth on Saturday, November 2, 2024
She is predeceased by husbands, Norman Edward Brown, Sr. and William Edward Brock. Son, Norman Edward Brown, Jr., and parents Patrick McCrae Holland and Eva Mildred Thomas Holland.
Left to cherish her memory are her two daughters, Anna Brown and husband Dennis of Rose Hill and Gina Hines and husband Larry of Rose Hill; sisters Hazel Pittman Rowe and Patricia Head both of Wayne County; grandchildren: Norman Dwayne Brown and wife Sandra, Amanda Brown Collins and husband Brandon, Justin Brown and wife Jennifer, Georgiana Whaley, Ashley Holmes and husband Josh, Kevin Hines and wife Jessicca; great grandchildren: Hannah Whaley, Hallie Whaley (father Brad), Taylor Holmes, Tyler Holmes, Peyton Brown, McCrae Brown and Kinlee Hines.
Known to many, loved by all who knew her, “Miss Agless”, as she was affectionately called, lived a long, full life. She was born and raised in Nahunta, North Carolina, where she attended and graduated from Nahunta High School. She was the daughter of a sharecropper and homemaker who taught her, at an early age, the value of hard work. Those values and lessons stuck with her all her life. As a result, she was no stranger to hard work and strong moral values.
In her teenage years, she dreamt of becoming a nurse, following in the footsteps of a beloved aunt. After graduating from Nahunta High in the 1940s, she enrolled at James B. Walker School of Nursing in Wilmington, NC. During that time, nursing students were not allowed to be married while attending school. When she met Norman, or Slim as he was known, she chose love over a career, leaving school behind to pursue marriage and growing her own family. When she and Slim married, she became a part of the Pasture Branch community where she lived and loved others the remainder of her life.
Slim and Agnes had one son, Norman Edward Brown, Jr. Sadly, Slim passed away ten years into their marriage, leaving her to care for Slim’s aging mother, Anna, and their nine-year-old son. To make ends meet, she enrolled in Cosmetology school and earned her chair at Dot’s in Wallace, NC. She worked there a few years after she married her second husband, William, in the early 1960s.
In this chapter of her life, she and William farmed and opened a small country store where he did mechanic work and she ran the grocery side of the store. During that time, she and William had two daughters, Anna and Gina. After health issues made it impossible for William to do mechanic work, they closed the store and focused on farming.
Because she was a farmer’s daughter, she was happiest whenever she was outdoors. She loved driving tractors, working in the fields, gardening, digging in flower beds and, in her more mature years, she could be found on any given day doing yard work on the land she and William called Home. She loved a fire and would stack piles of odd limbs and debris she cleaned each week from her yard. She would sit with her favorite furry companion, Coco, watching it all burn to ash.
Her heart was as big as the ocean, and for many years she was a caregiver to those she loved dearly. She cared for both mothers-in-law for over fifty years, combined. She was caregiver to her late husband, William, before his death in 2014. To say she was tough was an understatement. She never complained, she just did what she had to do, and always put others needs ahead of her own with deep love and genuine compassion.
Her family was everything to her. Everyone knew she was the glue that held them all together. For years, she made quilts by hand, and every single one of her children, their children, and their children’s children own a quilt made especially for them. They may have been made from old scrap pieces of fabric, but each quilt was made with immeasurable, unconditional love. Countless hours of stitching and sewing allowed her to give these treasures to those she loved. In addition to her family, she also gave quilts, or odd things she had made, to close friends and neighbors. In giving, her heart was happiest.
To those who knew and loved her, her love for and faith in God was evident in all she did. She was a Sunday school teacher for over fifty years at Island Creek Baptist Church, and her beautiful Alto voice lifted high though out the Sanctuary each Sunday morning. Her biggest prayer was that others saw Jesus in her.
She was quick with jokes and loved to laugh. Her way of warming up to strangers was to make light of any situation and, through laughter, she made life-long friends easily. She was kind and caring. She was devoted and loyal, and she loved others as they loved her. She was absolutely hands down, a wonderful, beautiful soul.
They say grief is the price one pays for love, and no matter the number of years we live without her physically, we will always carry a part of her with us. She will forever be loved and forever be missed. No one should doubt where she is today. She is now walking streets of Gold, singing in Heaven’s great choir, and worshipping God as faithfully as she did though out her earthly life,
Please feel free to join the family in a Celebration of Life service on Wednesday, November 6, 2024 at 11:00 AM at Serenity Funeral Home in Beulaville, with visitation one hour prior to the service. Burial services will be private. In Lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made in her honor to Island Creek Baptist Church, 237 Pasture Branch Road, Rose Hill, NC 28458.
