Darlene Brown

Ethel “Darlene” Brown, age 84 from Pfeifer, Kansas, passed away on Friday, September 25, 2026, at the Good Samaritan Society Hays Senior Living, Hays, Kansas.

She was born on January 26, 1942, in Bayard, Nebraska to Harold Allen and Edna Mae (Willey) Low. She married Daryll J. Brown on March 1,1964, in Bridgeport, NE. He preceded her in death on January 24, 1992.

Darlene was a homemaker, a switchboard operator in Bridgeport for many years, and also worked as a sales clerk at Bateman’s Trading Post. She grew up in Bayard and Bridgeport and was a 1960 graduate of Bridgeport High School. She moved to Pfeifer in 2003, to live with her daughter, and then in 2025 she moved to the Good Samaritan Society in Hays. Darlene did genealogy research her families for over 20 years. She enjoyed crocheting, knitting, baking, and canning. Darlene always had a large vegetable garden and a number of flower gardens.

Darlene is survived by her children, Valerie Green and husband, Don, Nebraska City, NE; Denise Brown and husband, Tony, Hemingford, NE; Candice Brown Roth and husband, Nathan, Pfeifer, KS; her grandchildren, Andrew Hecht (Carrie); Alan Hecht; Alyssa Hurd (Juan); Nicole Connelly (Preston); Ashley Green (Dylan); Lindsay Green (Shawn); Makenzie Green (Nathan); Cassie Vrbka (Joel); Randal Wagoner (Ashley); Kaylie Goscha; Nathan Roth Jr. (Taylor); Christian Roth (Mia); Brooklynn Roth; and Elizabeth Roth; her ten great children; her special nephew, Curtis Brown; her other nieces and nephews; her brothers, Harold Low and wife, Darlene, Arapahoe, NE; Eddie Low, Minatare, NE; her sister Lavinia Suhr, Scottsbluff, NE.

Darlene was preceded in death by her parents, Harold and Edna Low; her brother, John Low; her sisters, Mary Ellen Goodro and Lois Dobrinski.

The family has selected cremation, and services will be at a later date. Inurnment will be in the Bridgeport Cemetery in Bridgeport, Nebraska.

Memorials are suggested to the family made payable to: Candice Brown Roth, in care of Cline’s-Keithley Mortuary of Hays, 1919 East 22nd Street, Hays, Kansas 67601.

Condolences can be emailed to clineschapels@gmail.com or left at the guest book at www.keithleyfuneralchapels.com.