BROWNIE JEAN ALFORD MCELMOYL
AAFA #0252
1934 TX –2001 AZ
DAILY COURIER
Prescott, Yavapai Co., AZ—Monday,
16 July 2001
Brownie Jean McElmoyl, 62, of Prescott, died
Monday, July 9, 2001, in Duncan, Okla.
She was born Sept. 4, 1934, in Shreveport, La.,
to Steven A. and Joyce (Powell) Alford. Mrs. McElmoyl attended Lake Charles
High School and received a bachelor’s degree from Texas Women’s University in
Denton, Texas. After college she moved to Phoenix and taught physical education
at Carl Hayden High School. She also worked as a tennis professional at John
Gardiner’s Tennis Ranch in Scottsdale in the 1970s.
Mrs. McElmoyl moved to Prescott in the early
1990s and worked as human resources coordinator for the Yavapai Gaming Agency.
Her family and friends will remember her as a person of compassion who had a
unique sense of humor.
Surviving are her daughter, Courtney of Duncan,
Okla.; son, Scott of Atlanta, Ga.; sisters, Jane Sims of Lynchburg, Va. and
Joyce Vorman of Stockbridge, Mass.; and one grandchild.
There were no services. At Mrs. McElmoyl’s
request, her ashes will be spread over her mother’s grave in Amite, La....
Don Grantham Funeral Home, Inc., of Duncan,
Okla., helped the family with arrangements.
AAFA NOTES: SSDI
records confirm the birth and death dates of Brownie J. McElmoyl (SS# issued in
LA), last residence Prescott, Yavapai Co., AZ.
We included the obituaries of her father, Steve
A. Alford Sr.; and brother Steve A. Alford Jr. (AAFA #0190) in Louisiana
Obituaries; sister Joyce Alford Vorman (AAFA #0251) in Massachusetts
Obituaries; and sister Jane Alford Sims in Virginia Obituaries.
For more information on this family, see AAFA’s
published genealogies, Descendants
of Jacob Alford, b. 1761 NC , John Seaborn
Alford 1807 LA, and John Alford
(1645–1710 VA) Tentative Genealogy, First Three Generations .
Her lineage: Brownie Jean 1934 LA1,
Steve A. 1892 LA2, Arthur Colley 1869 LA3, Marshall
Thomas 1839 LA4, John Seaborn 1807 LA5, Jacob 1761 NC6,
Julius 1717 VA7, James 1687 VA8, John 1645 VA9.
