Georgine Brotherton
Funeral services for Georgine Paul Jane Brotherton, 94, West Plains, Missouri, will be held at 2:00 p.m., Thursday, February 16, 2017 in the Rose Chapel at Robertson-Drago Funeral Home.
Mrs. Brotherton went home to be with the Lord on February 13, 2017.
She was born August 22, 1922, at Caen, France, the only child of the late Paul Leon Labelle and Josephe Georgine Jardin Labelle. Georgine grew up in France during WWII and faced its adversity with courage, often providing misleading British war reports to German soldiers who took control of the newspaper office where she worked in Paris. She was a World War II bride and married the love of her life, Robert Brotherton on August 24, 1945 in Paris, France. They were married just two months shy of sixty years when Robert was called home to the Lord. After crossing the Atlantic in a ship to join her new husband, she served in the role of “stay at home Mom” and homemaker for the remainder of her days. She enjoyed gardening, cooking, sewing, quilting, knitting and crocheting and loved to travel. She also loved watching Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune. Georgine accepted Christ as her Savior on October 3, 1950 and was baptized on October 15, 1950 in a spring fed pond on JJ Highway. She was a long time member of Berean Baptist Church in West Plains and taught Sunday School there for many years.
She is survived by four children, Deanna Wheeler and husband, Jim, Monett, Missouri, Robert Leon Brotherton and wife, Brenda, Gamaliel, Arkansas, Marilyn Roberts and husband, Sam, West Plains and Debbie Collins and husband, Rufus, West Plains; several grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.
Her parents, husband, Reverend Robert Louis Brotherton and her step-father, Pierre Barthe, precede her in death.
Visitation will be from 6:00 until 8:00 p.m., Wednesday, at Robertson-Drago Funeral Home. Burial will be in the Howell Memorial Park Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to the Gideon Bible Society and may be left at Robertson-Drago Funeral Home.
Paula R. England
February 14, 2017 @ 8:04 pm
Thinking of you and your family. Sending prayers for comfort.
Mary Kellum
February 14, 2017 @ 8:15 pm
What an incredible woman Miss Georgine was. I was privileged and honored to take her to church on the van to Berean. She always had kind and loving words for all the children on the van. She and I taught a young mom on the van how to make biscuits and gravy for her family. I learned so much about the love of Jesus from Georgine. I had to have several surgeries over the years and Georgine always came to the hospital to wait and pray with my family. She waited each time to talk with the doctor so she would know better how to pray for me. She told me her favorite song was Wayfaring Stranger. She is no longer a wayfaring stranger but is at home with her savior and the love of her life Brother Bob. God bless all of her family at this time. You had a wonderful mother.
Ada Cochran
February 15, 2017 @ 7:54 pm
A very special lady and a great friend to our Rader Family.