Obituary of Julie Powell

Julie Powell was the 11th child born to the union of Fortune Brown Sr. and Annis Bragg Brown in Vredenburgh, Alabama on September 23rd, 1944. She was baptized a Christian at Westside Baptist Church upon moving to St. Louis with her parents in 1957. After graduating from Sumner High School, she earned a certificate for data entry and information processing. Julie’s passion for people led her to work for St. Louis Housing Authority in 1965 as a Maintenance Clerk. She held this position for several years before leaving to work for Bell Telephone and then International Shoe Company. She later returned to the St. Louis Housing Authority in 1989 as a Housing Specialist. She retired in 2011 from Volunteers of America, working with the elderly. Julie loved life and all the joy it brought. She especially enjoyed basketball, cheering on her imaginary son, LeBron James, and she never missed a golf tournament with Tiger Woods. Julie was preceded in death by her parents; sisters Buelah, Thordia, Lillie Mae, Eliza, Lucy Mac, Ernestine and Olivia; brothers Fortune Jr., Berry, Booker T. and Alfred. She leaves to cherish her memory two daughters, Stefi Loris Powell, who currently resides in St. Louis, Missouri and Julana Carol Parker, who currently resides in Carrollton, Texas – both daughters born from her union with Steven Powell (deceased). She also leaves behind two lovely granddaughters, Jazmyn Jenée Moore and Alexandra Simone Lee Parker; two sisters, Mary Etta White and Maranda Brown of St. Louis Missouri; two brothers, W. C. McCants of Mobile, Alabama and Peter Brown of Detroit, Michigan; a host of dear nieces, nephews, cousins, friends and her beloved grand dogs, Rowlee and Chase.