Juanita (Brown) Totten

Juanita (Brown) Totten, 86, graduated to her heavenly home on August 3, 2024 at Jasper Memorial Hospital after battling strokes and wildly fluctuating blood pressure.  Juanita was born on March 7, 1938 in Happy (Perry County) Kentucky to the late William (Ed) and Martha (Combs) Brown.

As a young girl she was saved through the ministry of a mountain missionary, Mrs. Sproul.  Juanita served the Lord by sowing into others as a Sunday School teacher and youth leader in Dearborn County and also in Crawford County, Indiana.  There are many testimonies of lives touched by Jesus Christ, some resulting in service to Christ by preaching and music ministries.

She moved with her coal miner family from Happy, Kentucky to Milltown, Indiana in the mid-fifties where she met a young farm boy in Milltown High School- Carl Ray Totten.  They dated for two years until she finished high school and he finished his freshman year at Indiana University Bloomington.  They were married September 6, 1957.  As a wonderful mother to their five children, she concentrated on raising them in the nurture and admonition of the Lord Jesus.  When the younger ones were in school, she became a grill cook at the 231 Truck Stop, a pie maker at Carter’s Carefree Restaurant, a cleaning service owner- even doing windows.  She also graduated from QMA (Qualified Medical Assistant) serving compassionately in nursing homes.  In her late life she also served as bailiff in the Crawford County Circuit Court for Judge Jack Riddle.

She was preceded in death by her parents and by siblings Harry Brown and Ed Brown , Jr. of Milltown, Indiana, Billie Jean Johnson and Harold Brown (Crip) of Leitchfield, Kentucky, Buna Brown and Pauline Brown of Happy, Kentucky.

She is survived by her husband of 66 years, Carl Ray Totten and 3 daughters Deborah Totten of New Albany, Indiana; Marsha Schraner (Allen) of Boise, Idaho; Teresa Spencer (Mike, recently deceased) of Branchville, Indiana; and sons, Douglass “Doug” (Donna) and Joseph “Joe” Totten of Mauckport, Indiana.

She is also survived by grandchildren:  Candice Eastridge, Nathan Schraner, Jordan Schraner, Heather Wathen, Lindsay Tempel, Joshua Totten, Eli Totten, Kristy Windell, Parker Totten, Joci Totten, Nathan Schmitt, Camryn Schmitt, Hunter Schmitt, Hunter Schmitt, and Shayne Spencer, as well as 19 great grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held Tuesday, August 6 at 2:00 p.m. (ET) at Brown Funeral Home in Milltown, Indiana.  Visitation will be held on Monday, August 5, 2024 from 3-8 pm (ET) and Tuesday, August 6, 2024 from 10:00 am until time of the funeral service, all at the funeral home.

Interment will follow in the Union Chapel Cemetery near Milltown, Indiana

Memorial contributions can be made to the WHAS Crusade for Children, 520 W. Chestnut Street, Louisville, Kentucky  40202, and/or St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, Tennessee  38105.

Brown Funeral Home in Milltown, Indiana is entrusted with the arrangements.

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