Judy Maxine Brown
Huntsville A funeral service for Judy Maxine Brown, 60, was held May 5, 2025, at 1 p.m. at Peck Funeral Home Chapel with her sisters Patricia Smith and Cheryl Maples officiating. Burial was in Valhermoso Holiness Cemetery.
Ms. Brown died on April 29, 2025, at her residence. She was born September 29, 1964, in Morgan County, to Ollie Brown and Rella Marie Taylor Brown.
Judy (aka- Lillah Hooten) was the fourth of five children to Ollie and Marie Brown, of Valhermoso Springs, Alabama; and easily the most stubborn of the five, which is saying something! A Wednesday Adams doppelganger, she was an amazing actress and won several regional and state competitions. She also became the first female ROTC battalion commander at Brewer High School.
Instead of pursuing an acting career, Judy enlisted in the US Army after graduation. She was named outstanding cadet of her class prior to being deployed to Germany. Judy eventually left the Army after choosing to be a wife and mother but continued to support the military as a volunteer through various roles.
After her family was transferred back to the states, Judy embarked on a different career as a substitute teacher, which enriched her life as well as the lives of many others for 16 years.
God gave Judy the gift of laughter and helping other people along their way; and she was a true friend. Her friends and family pray her heaven
OBITUARIES, page A-3 is filled with her favorite things: her loved ones who have gone on before her, 4 leaf clovers, light houses, murder mysteries, bacon and NASCAR! Survivors include her daughter, Bianca Marie McKenna (Shaun), her grandson, Brayden Henderson, her granddaughter, Skylar McKenna; three sisters, Patricia Smith, Valerie Clinkenbeard, and Larisa Ricketts-Owens; a niece, April Hall; two nephews, Brandon Smith and Yancey Smith; seven great nieces and nephews, Ben, Chrissi, Chloe, Mac, Zeb, Payton, and Olivia; a great-great niece, Nayvi; four aunts, Ella Grubbs, Linda White, Mary Rivers, and Annie Lenox; and too many friends to count. Pallbearers were Brayden Henderson, Ben Shadden, Mac Shadden, Brandon Smith, Yancey Smith, and Shaun McKenna. Honorary Pallbearers were her ‘Heart Sisters’, Melodie Calhoun, Robin Holmes, Brenda Jones, Cheryl Maples, Faye Marion, Catrina Mason, Debby Mason, Lisa Morton, Jahn Ryan, and Teena Williams. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial donations be made to Hospice of North Alabama.
