Monday, November 07, 2022
Avery-Storti Funeral Home
Wenonah was and is love.
She took her travel into the tone satellite unexpectedly connected the greeting of October 30th, 2022, surrounded successful beingness by her loved ones.
She loved hard, and strong, and anyone wrong her extended scope felt it from seashore to seashore and borderline to border.
She loved arsenic connected quality and carnal kind... close down to her regular daily of cooking meals regular for her Bea-Tzu companion pups.
Wenonah was the explanation of a beloved matriarch. From consummate cognition and cellular embodiment of ancestral wisdom, to fierce protector of each who needed her strength. From mentor offering the purest emotion and the highest of standards to each who sought her advice, to healer with hands which were miraculous instruments of intuition- and arsenic always, adoring parent and grandmother, particularly to her ain family; who were ever contiguous successful her words and thoughts, and who present arsenic a clan embody the antithetic aspects of this uniquely bonzer woman.
She was calved successful Putnam, CT September 7, 1947, to John B Brown Sr. of Westerly RI, and Ella Wilcox ( Sekatau ) of CT. The oldest of 9 of John & Ella's children.
Wenonah would wed Harry Nelson Mars Jr. of RI and the 2 had 3 daughters betwixt 1975 and 1980, Anemone, Quahna, and Nishke Mars. A 2nd matrimony successful beingness to Douglas Harris of NY would bring her stepson Touré Harris into the familial fold. In 1996 she began her travel into incomparable grandmotherhood. Her grandchildren ( 5 grandsons and 1 granddaughter) Atsa Zah, Eiyazh Foster, Mishkwatuk (Jayden ) Mars, Liliana Ava Mae Mars, Skylar Rain Etsitty and Nodin River Etsitty, were her reigning pridefulness and joyousness and she is survived by 4 siblings; Roslyn Brown, Hiawatha J, Brown, John B Brown III and Muriel Stanton Brown- each of her children and grandchildren.
Wenonah devoted her beingness to the work of protecting Indigenous children and accepted household structures, done not lone her implementation and upholding of "organic instrumentality and lore" but besides her adept cognition and exertion of the Indian Child Welfare Act. She was a formidable advocator of the assorted protections and preservations of accepted halfway household values not lone wrong tribal infrastructures, but extensively inclusive wrong inter-state departments of children and families on with authorities household tribunal systems for implicit 35 years. Her work to her tribal radical expanded passim her beingness successful aggregate facets and successful the aftermath of her mother's passing, Wenonah assumed the relation of hereditary accepted Medicine Woman of the Narragansett Tribe, arsenic was her parent before.
Wenonah ne'er deviated from her devotion to her household oregon enactment (often 1 and the same), and spent moments successful her past days ensuring her daughters would convey her messages to "make definite to get the cases right."
All of america who were fortunate capable to cognize her are precise wide that a quality of this caliber is simply a rarity to encounter, and each infinitesimal spent with her generated wonderment for the indomitable powerfulness of her tone and humanity.
With a dense heart, we look to her household to spot glimpses and demonstrations of Wenonah- and it is indispensable we gully upon the cognition that each and each 1 of america who were impacted by her generosity tin bespeak shimmering rays of that agleam airy backmost to each other.
She was ever a large ancestor walking amongst us, and present we each indispensable amusement our emotion and respect to her bequest by carrying guardant the galore gifts she bestowed.
Wenonah volition everlastingly proceed to beryllium loved and missed immutably by galore intertribal and wide communities abroad, particularly wrong her 2nd location amongst the Eastern Band Cherokee Tribe successful the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina- and astir of all, by her cherished family. Her bequest lives connected done the emotion of her children and grandchildren.
Wenonah's solemnisation of life/sharing volition beryllium held connected Tuesday, November 8, 2022, from 4-7 p.m. astatine the Avery-Storti Funeral Home
88 Columbia St. Wakefield, RI 02879, and a accepted graveside burial connected November 9th, 2022, astatine 11:00 americium astatine the Narragansett Indian Tribal Cemetery successful Charlestown R.I. connected the preservation lands.
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