Elveta Brown was born on January 1, 1951, to Rosetta Maxwell and Zebedee Brown in the parish of Westmoreland, Jamaica. From her mother, she has two older brothers, Clarence Vincent and Roy Vincent. From her father, she has three brothers, Vernon Brown, Frederick Brown, and Seymour Brown, as well as three sisters, the late Tuntun (affectionately called), Eileen Brown, and Movelle Brown. She has surviving cousins, multiple nieces and nephews, grand nieces and nephews. In her early years, she attended St. Leonard’s Primary School before attending a secondary institution. As a child, she lived with her father’s wife as her father had emigrated to England, but later, she went to live with her uncle (her mother’s brother), Edward Bernard, when she was a teenager. In her early twenties, she moved to Kingston to join her older brother, Roy, and ultimately landed her first job with the Agriculture Marketing Corporation (AMC) as a cashier at its Harbour View location and later moved to the Red Hills Road location. In 1978, she mortgaged a house in the Waterford area of Portmore, St. Catherine, and in 1979, she had her only child, Paul Patterson. After the closure of AMC, Elveta began working as a security officer with Expol Security Company and was stationed at the Jamaica Conference Center. She worked as a security officer for a few years, and upon her inability to find someone to look after her son while she was at work, she turned to self-employment, which she did until 2002 when she emigrated to Albany, New York, United States of America, to join her brother Roy. After arriving in Albany, she worked with her brother Roy in his restaurant until moving to Orlando, Florida, in 2003, where she resided with June Cranston (her neighbor from Waterford, Jamaica) and her family for a brief period of time before getting her first apartment at Hibiscus Place on Silver Star Road. Her first job after moving to Orlando was at Universal Studios Orlando, where she remained until her death. She first attended a Faith Tabernacle Worship Center Church on Pine Hills Road until she later joined the Mission of Hope Worship Center Church. Elveta Brown was the kindest, most loving person I’ve ever known. She mothered everyone, so much so that a lot of people would often call her “Momma Brown.” As her son, I feel like I grew up with the most incredible role model who taught me to be self-sufficient and hardworking. I will miss her smile, her laugh, her sage advice, and her bubbly personality. I know that she will be greatly missed by many for different reasons. Thank you again for being her today to honor her memory. She loved all of you, and her memory will live on in all of us.
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