as called home on Wednesday, April 18, 2012. Dear wife of Beecher Brown, Sr.; mother of Catherine Williams, Beecher Brown, Jr., and Keith Brown; daughter of Catherine Reed; sister of Jane Branson and Ida Fairley; grandmother of Ashley, Derrick, Jr., Gabrielle, and Dion. Family and friends are invited to Shirley's Life Celebration on Thursday, April 26 from 11:00am until Going Home Service at 12noon at Mt. Ennon Baptist Church, 9832 Piscataway Rd., Clinton, MD. Interment Maryland Veterans Cemetery, Cheltenham, MD.