Ellamae J. (Downs) Brown of Hampton Bays died on March 27, 2017, at the Acadia Center for Rehabilitaion and Nursing in Riverhead from natural causes. She was 88.
Born in Flanders on January 1, 1929, she was the daughter of Raymond Normoyle and Jennie Elizabeth Lucas. She lived in Hampton Bays most of her adult life, raising her family, and then lived in Stuart, Florida, for serveral years after marrying her husband Robert Brown. She moved back to Hampton Bays to be near her children the last 18 years of her life.
Ms. Brown is survived by her children, Jennie Steward and husband Michael, Marjorie Stellmann and husband Scott, Irene Blydenburgh and husband Rick, Robert Downs and wife Eileen; daughter-in-law, Frances Downs; stepson Edward Brown and wife Patricia; and her siblings, Raymond Normoyle Jr., Ellen Marsh and Alice Dougherty. She is also survived by 14 grandchildren, Michael, Linda, Keith, Donald, Christine, Michelle, Susan, Brian, John, Jessica, Robert, Victoria, Jeffrey and Michael; and 25 great-grandchildren; and many extended family members.
She was predeceased by her husband Donald E. Downs Sr.; her son, Donald E. Downs Jr.; and her second husband, Robert W. Brown; brothers Harold, George and Jay Normoyle and Alan Buscemi; and sisters, Gertrude Carter, Dorothy Kruk and Delores Turner.
A visitation was held on March 29 at Scott Funeral Home in Hampton Bays. A funeral service was held at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Hampton Bays on March 30, followed by burial at Good Ground Cemetery in Hampton Bays.
Memorial donations may be made to Hampton Bays Volunteer Ambulance or St Mary’s Episcopal Church. Online condolence may be left at jrscottfuneralhome.com.