Eileen Louise Brown

Eileen was born in Placerville in 1961, and grew up on Cold Springs Road. She attended Sierra Elementary School, Edwin Markham Middle School and graduated from El Dorado High School in 1979. She is greatly missed by her mother, Frances, sisters Katharine and Mary, and brother Darryl. After high school, Eileen moved to Redding California, where she attended Shasta College and obtained her general education degree before transferring to Cal Polytechnic in San Luis Obispo. At Shasta College she loved driving the tractor and working with the animals at the school farm. In fact, she lived at the college’s farm for at least one year. She made many of her lifelong friends at Shasta College. Eileen also liked living in San Luis Obispo and graduated as a crop science major with a specialty in fruit science. She was a lifelong proponent of agriculture, giving to various organizations that advocated for the agricultural industries. She also enjoyed the farm animals at Cal Poly and interacted with them through friends who were various animal science majors. After she graduated from Cal Poly, she briefly worked for a local San Luis Obispo credit union before landing a career position at the Ferry Morse Seed Company in Hollister. She worked at Ferry Morse for 11 years as a Quality Control employee, checking the crops in the fields, including cropland in Southern California, and at the seed mill, as well as documenting and organizing the seed lots. This natural attention to detail and methodical attribute would follow her through her life and play a very large part in retaining her health as long as possible. Eileen made some very close friends working at Ferry Morse. She enjoyed her career immensely and also enjoyed living in Hollister, attending nearby rodeos and enjoying all that the western ranch life of the area had to offer. She worked for many years even after she lost her kidney function, by administering her own peritoneal dialysis for 8 years. Once she began hemodialysis in 1997, she was no longer able to work at Ferry Morse and that broke her heart. She lived to work in agriculture and to enjoy the freedom and career as does any young person. She moved back to Placerville and reacquainted herself with a few high school friends and met sand befriended other people who went to hemodialysis with her as well. Eileen loved country music and became a great fan of Trace Adkins, Dirks Bentley (even before he hit it big), Charlie Daniels and Carrie Underwood, to name but a few. She attended many concerts and met the entertainers, and again, met some people who became her great friends. One summer, she took a trip to Nashville and toured Ryman Auditorium and also went to a Grand Ol’ Opry show. This trip was a lifetime highlight. Genealogy became a passion for EIleen, as she and her mother worked on family trees for both sides of their family: the Brown’s and the Davis’. She was able to trace the Brown family back to the 1600’s, and the Davis family back to the 1500’s. Eileen was always very thorough and methodical. Eileen is missed by all her family and friends, but will live in our hearts forever. Our memories are many. We are planning a celebration of life for Eileen, but do not have a firm date or place. Please check back on this website for details, which will be coming soon. Please do not send flowers. The American Kidney Fund helped Eileen each month with her dialysis expenses for which she was very grateful. If you wish, you may donate to the American Kidney Fund (contributions@kidneyfund.org) or go to http://www.kidneyfund.org/get-involved/ways-to-give/ or give to the charity of your choice.

Eileen Louise Brown

March 10, 1961 - September 22, 2016