Loewayne Brown

L oewayne was born April 8, 1938, to Carl and Verda Thompson in North Platte.  She died at age 85 on September 25, 2023, in North Platte after a long battle with Alzheimers.

Loewayne grew up in North Platte alongside her sister, Nancy.  When the girls were young they loved to dress the dogs, Twinkle and Blondie, up in doll clothes and pull them around in their wagons.  During her early teen years, Loewayne played softball on the Eagle Teeners team and was an avid player.  She passed her love of the sport on to her sons.

Loewayne attended Roosevelt Elementary School, Adams Jr. High and North Platte Senior High.  On October 28, 1953, she married Billy J. Brown in Ogallala and had four sons, Douglas, Donald, Dwayne and Darwin.  They lived in Marysville, KS, Laramie, WY, then moved back to North Platte in 1967.

Loewayne was a stay at home mom when the boys were young.  Once they were all in school she went to work for Little Pig Diner at Westfield, then Sears and Roebuck, the Gas Stop, and later for the North Platte Telegraph in the circulation department.

She loved dogs, gardening (her favorite flowers were petunias and pansies), her Bunco club, decorating for all the seasons and holidays, and finding treasures at auctions and garage sales.

Loewayne was preceded in death by her husband, Billy, and their sons Doug and Darwin; her parents; half-brothers, John "Johnny" and Everett Thompson; brothers-in-law, Richard Ridder and Leonard Brown; and sister-in-law, Carleen Tenpenny.

She is survived by her sons, Donald (Julie) Brown of North Platte and Dwayne (Renae) Brown of Cozad; grandchildren, Lindsey (Mike) Richards and Sarah Brown of North Platte, Clayton (Taryn) Brown and Keenan Brown of Kearney, Cory (Laney) Brown of Cottonwood, CA, Chelsie Brown and Crysta Brown of Red Bluff, CA, Justin (Ashley) Brown and Jessica Brown of Omaha, and Cody Brown of Deer Park, WA; great-grandchildren, Braxton and Adaleigh Richards, Rori, Ridge and Rawlins Brown, Carter and Lacey Brown, McKenzie Banks,  Bradyn and Astoria Brown, and Oscar and Owen Holtorf; her sister, Nancy Ridder of Callaway; and other family.

Cremation was chosen.  Memorial Service will be 11 a.m. on Thursday, October 5 at Odean Colonial Chapel with Job Vigil officiating.  Inurnment will follow in the North Platte Cemetery.  Memorials are to the North Platte Alzheimers Support Group.  The memorial book may be signed online at odeanchapel.com or at Odean Colonial Chapel at C & Sycamore, which is in charge of arrangements.