Faye Claudine Brown

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• Also Known As: Dean

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Mrs. Faye Claudine “Dean” Rhoden, age 86, of Macclenny, Florida died Saturday, July 21, in the Big Bend Hospice, Tallahassee, Florida following a brief illness.

Mrs. Rhoden was born in the Taylor community of Baker county and traveled with her husband during his military career. After his retirement they moved back to Macclenny, Florida in 1969. She then attended college and became a charter graduate of the University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida with a Master’s Degree in Education and then taught school in the Baker County School System for 20 years until her retirement. She was a former president of the Macclenny Women’s Club and was Florida Women of the Year. She also was a member of the Leona Knabb Order of the Eastern Star and Worthy Matron and mother advisor of the Order of the Rainbow Girls. She loved to travel, read, work in her garden and was known as being able to cook the best fried chicken in Macclenny.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Berry Floyd Rhoden, Sr., her son, Robert Rhoden and her parents, Ray Leonard and Athena Irene Raulerson Brown.

She is survived by her two daughters, Connie (Tommy) McGlew of Macclenny, Florida and Rebecca (Marshall) Ogletree of Tallahassee, Florida: her son, Berry (Kay) Rhoden, Jr. of St. Augustine Beach, Florida: Four sisters, Nettie Ruth Brown of St. Augustine, Florida, Betty Madden of Anderson, South Carolina, Marjorie Dunn of Dothan, Alabama and Gail Brown of Glen St. Mary, Florida: one brother, George “Bud” Brown of Palm Bay, Florida: 15 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren also survive.

A funeral service to honor the life of Mrs. Rhoden will be held at 1 P.M. Wednesday, July 25, in the First Baptist Church, Macclenny, Florida with Dr. Edsel Bone, Pastor, officiating. Interment will be in North Prong Cemetery, Baker County, Florida.

Guerry Funeral Homes, Macclenny, Florida.

Family/Spouse: Berry Floyd Rhoden. Berry (son of Grover Cleveland Rhoden and Rosa Mae Crews) was born on 18 Dec 1931 in Eddy, Baker, Florida, USA; died on 26 Jan 2009 in Green Cove Springs, Clay, Florida, USA; was buried in North Prong Cemetery, Baxter, Baker, Florida, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Robert Dean Rhoden was born on 22 Sep 1957; died on 13 Oct 1988 in Jacksonville, Duval, Florida, USA; was buried in North Prong Cemetery, Baxter, Baker, Florida, USA.
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