Alma Bruce Brown, a Muscogee Creek Citizen, was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, and grew up attending Eufaula Indian Boarding School. She had four younger sisters, who preceded her in death: Ernestine Marshall, Doris Spurlock, Margaret Roberts and Annabelle Cowen. She was also preceded in death by husband, Jacob Milton Brown, a Lakota Sioux from Pine Ridge Reservation whom she met at Haskell Indian School; along with her sons, Bruce Milton Brown and Frederick Howard Brown; her daughter, Elizabeth Ellen Harden; and grandson, Stephen Kent Brown. She is survived by daughters, Anita Brown Rodriguez and son-in-law, Dave Rodriguez, and Alice Brown; sons, Ken Brown and wife Mary Sue, and David Brown and wife Pamela; 20 Grandchildren; 23 Great-Grandchildren; and 1 Great-Great Grandchild.She was the beloved matriarch of our family who loved with every ounce of her being. She taught us many lessons about how to live and behave. She will be greatly missed but we all are comforted knowing she is in heaven where she has wings instead of pain. She was a very strong believer in God and his divine plan for all of us. She lived all of her 94 years with gratitude, joy and happiness as a faithful servant of God. Even at the hospital our matriarch calmly reminded all that our love for one another would guide us through the coming days and then she offered a prayer, a true testament to her love and faithfulness to family and God. Even though she didn't have a structure that most people would call "home," when she arrived at any one of our houses--that made it HOME. Her final days were spent with her family by her side at her Grandson