Ina Fay Martha Brown was born October 18, 1916 at the home of her grandparents, H. I. and Martha Walck, south of Arnett, Oklahoma. She was the second daughter of Edith May Walck Turner and Edward Emanuel Turner. She passed from this life May 17, 2011 at her home in Apache, Oklahoma at the age of 94 years.
Ina Fay's father died of the flu in 1918 when she was 16 months old and her mother returned from Bramen, Oklahoma to the home of her parents. Ina Fay attended school in Arnett for a short while before her mother married George Coykendall and the family moved to Hutchinson, Kansas, where she completed high school and business college.
On May 12, 1940 Ina Fay was married to John Lewis Brown in the Presbyterian Church in Woodward, Oklahoma. They had two sons, John Cary Brown and Richard LaVerne Brown.
Ina Fay was a member of the Arnett Christian Church, Order of the Eastern Star, American Legion Auxiliary, General Federation of Women's Clubs in Apache Oklahoma, Daughters of the American Revolution, Woodward chapter, and a member in the Oklahoma Historical Society. In addition, she was a past Matron and District Deputy of the Order of the Eastern Star, past Regent and District Deputy of the DAR, past President of the Northwest District County Officers Association, council member of the Oklahoma Health System Agency and an E.M.T.
After the death of her husband, Ina Fay worked in the treasurers office in Ellis county, was Deputy Court Clerk, and then Court Clerk. She was appointed Court Clerk and afterward elected to that office. She served 26 years in county government. Upon retirement in 1980, she was given an honorary Lifetime Membership in the Oklahoma Court Clerks Association. Ina Fay was a licensed abstractor and worked in the Null Abstract office in Arnett. She loved music of all kinds and played the piano and violin. Her favorite song was "Whatever will be, will be".
Ina Fay retired in 1982 and moved to Apache, Oklahoma. Her hobbies were crocheting, knitting, making quilts and quilting, reading, and painting with mediums of oil, water color and pastels.
Ina Fay was preceded in death by her husband, John Brown, parents, Edward Emanuel and Edith May Turner, sister, Anna Mae Lentz, brother-in-law, Olin Lentz, and grandparents, H.I. and Martha Walck.
Those left to cherish her memory are her two sons, John Brown and wife Wanda of Apache, Oklahoma and Richard Brown and wife Diane of Jackson, New Jersey, five grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren, other family and many dear friends.