Virginia Elvira Brown, 81, of Scio, Oregon passed away Saturday, October 17. She was born in Brea, California to Virgil and Celestial (Smith) Powers.

She lived around the LaComb area while growing up and graduated from Lebanon High School. She married high school sweetheart Virgil Brown on October 1, 1951. They lived in Lebanon until 1963 when they moved to Scio and bought and operated Brown’s Slaughter House for 40 years.

Virginia was a member of Jehovah’s Witnesses. She was also a member of the Cascade Foothills Squares Square Dance Club in Sublimity, the Oregon Sheep Growers Association, and the Oregon Meat Packers Association. She and Virgil hosted the Northwest Champion Sheep Dog Trials for over 20 years.

She loved to read and spoil her grandchildren.

Virginia is survived by: her husband, Virgil Brown, of Scio; children Sherri Brown and Mike Cowdrey of Scio, Elizabeth and her husband, Allen Meyer, of Scio, and Steven Brown and Deanna Pittman of Lebanon; sister Randi Baker of Lebanon; grandchildren James and Ben Templin, Ryan and his wife, Dawn Brown, and Amber and her husband, Dustin Graves; and great granddaughter Angela Graves.

She was preceded in death by her brother, Lonnie Shaw.

Memorial service will be at 11:00 a.m., Tuesday, October 27, at the Jehovah’s Witnesses Kingdom Hall in Crabtree. A gathering for friends and family will follow at 12:30 p.m., at the ZCBJ Hall in Scio.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions can be made to Samaritan Evergreen Hospice, Linn County Lamb and Wool Fair, or the Oregon Sheep Growers Association.

Sweet Home Funeral Chapel is handling the arrangements.