CAIRO, Ill. -- Mary Bell Brown, 86, died Saturday, Sept. 14, 2002, at the Daystar Care Center in Cairo, Ill.

She was born March 3, 1916, in Cleveland, Miss., daughter of Willie and Francis Harris Brown. She moved to Cairo in 1939. She married Jimmie L. Brown on July 13, 1945.

She was a member of St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church, where she sang in the choir and was a Sunday school teacher.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband and a son.

She is survived by three daughters, June M. Brown of Greenville, S.C., Mary L. Wilkins of Norfolk, Va., May F. Nunn of Springfield, Ill.; one son, the Rev. Elbert "Dale" E. Brown of Alpharetta, Ga.; 11 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Visitation will be from 2 to 3 p.m. at the St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church in Klondike, Ill. Services will be at 3 p.m., Saturday at the church, with the Rev. R. Alexander and the Rev. E. Brown officiating. Burial will be at 11:30 a.m. Monday at the Mound City National Cemetery in Mound City, Ill.