Mrs. Elsie Mae Browning, 101, a resident of Trenton, passed away at 1:41p.m., Monday, September 26, 2022 at Wright Memorial Hospital in Trenton. Funeral services were held Wednesday, September 28, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. at the First Baptist Church, Trenton. Burial will be in Resthaven Memorial Gardens north of Trenton. Memorials to either the library or mission fund of the First Baptist Church may be left with Slater-Neal Funeral Home, Trenton. Mrs. Browning was born July 2, 1921 in Independence, the daughter of Frank and Mae Emma Thompson Patterson. She taught 4th grade in the Trenton R-9 School District until she retired. She was a member of the First Baptist Church, Retired Teachers Association , DAR, Women On Mission of the First Baptist and was active in the North Grand River Baptist Association all of Trenton. On,April 3, 1949 she was married in Kansas City, to Robert Daryl Browning. He preceded her in death on January 23, 2018.
Her survivors include three daughters Denise Dodd and husband Craig, Parkville, Daphne McClure and husband Jon, Spring Hill, Kansas, Maeanne Browning, Trenton; two grandchildren Brianne McClure, Brooklyn, New York, Brian McClure and wife Megan, Olathe, Kansas; two great grandchildren Hudson McClure; Everly McClure both of Olathe, Kansas; three nieces Shari Brown and husband Stewart, Wesley Snell and husband Jim and Kathy Hinkley and husband Colin. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, two brothers Robert Patterson and Frank Patterson.
