Frances Gail (Brown) Ragan's Obituary
Frances Gail (Brown) Ragan, age 89, passed peacefully from this life on August 25th, 2024. She was born on November 22, 1934, to the late Samuel Comer Brown and Clara Ruth (Tittle) Brown.
Frances grew up in Madison, TN, attended Goodlettesville high school and married her high school sweetheart, Pete. They were married for 72 years. She worked for Rhoten Realty while he attended Vanderbilt University. When Pete started his consulting surveying and engineering company, she initially ran his office. Her most loved career was being an amazing homemaker and mother at which she excelled.
Frances was renowned for being an outstanding cook and it was her hobby and passion. If she was not in the kitchen, she would have been out on her beloved Old Hickory Lake. She loved being on her houseboat, Scorpio Lady, with her many boating friends. If weather did not allow boating, she would be out dancing and entertaining with their many friends. In her later years, she enjoyed reading and looking out at the lake from her much-loved sunroom.
She is preceded in death by her brothers, Samuel Wayne Brown and Thomas David Brown.
She is survived by her husband Marshall H (Pete) Ragan; daughter Pamela Ragan Forsythe (Paul), son Stephen Marshall Ragan (Angie) and sister Carlene Brown Endsley. She is survived by four grandchildren Warren (Amy), Paul (Stephanie), Martha (Stephen), and Joshua Litton, eight great-grandchildren and three great-great grandchildren and many loving family members and friends. The family wishes to acknowledge and thank her wonderful, compassionate caregivers over the last years of her life.
A graveside service will be held Friday, September 6th, at 1 pm at the Historic Spring Hill Cemetery, 5110 Gallatin Road in Nashville. Those who wish to attend should meet at 12:45pm at the funeral home. Everyone will process to gravesite together.
A celebration of life will be held at a later date.
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