Monday, September 23, 2019 7:16 pm

MIDDLESEX - Lena Hood Brown, 88 of Middlesex passed away September 22, 2019. A graveside service will be conducted at 11 a.m. Wednesday, September 25, in Hollywood Cemetery, Middlesex. The Rev. Sean Skaggs will officiate.

The family will receive friends Tuesday evening from 6 - 8 p.m. at Joyner's Funeral Home, 4100 Raleigh Road Parkway, Wilson.

Lena is survived by her daughters, Anita Moore of Rocky Mount and Lola Brown of Middlesex; three grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; sister, Barbara Nell Strickland of Middlesex.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Arnold Lee Brown; parents, Robert and Annie Estridge Hood and her sister, Margaret Creech.

Flowers are welcome or please consider memorials in Lena's memory to Sudan Shriners Hospital for Children, PO Box 12829, New Bern, North Carolina 28561 or Juvenile Diabetes Research, 3739 National Drive, Suite 202, Raleigh, North Carolina 27612.