Naomi Leisering Shaul Brown, 97, passed away Friday February 27, 2015 at Willow Manor in Deming.

A celebration of her life will be celebrated at a later date, and cremation has been entrusted to Baca's Mimbres Crematory.

She was born December 13, 1917 to Margaret Turman and Harry Lee Leisering in Tyrone, New Mexico and attended Cliff Schools where she was a 1937 graduate. In 1936 she married her high school sweetheart John Arthur Shaul in Silver City. During their early years of marriage, they farmed in the Gila Valley in Fort Sumner, N.M. and in Douglas, Arizona. Around 1948, John was hired by the N.M. Department of Game and Fish and with his wife and daughters moved to Capitan then Gallup and finally to Las Cruces, where he passed away in 1967.

Naomi worked for the Las Cruces public schools as cafeteria manager until her retirement in 1979. She moved back to her beloved Gila Valley to live in the old Shaul family home. In 1982 she married Conn Brown and until his passing in 1994 they were active in Farm Bureau and the Cliff-Gila county fair. They also helped start the Gila Valley Senior Center. Naomi spent many hours there quilting with friends, her passion for the next twenty years. She never met a stranger and was loved by many. She was a member of the Gila Valley Baptist Church. Her family and friends were her greatest treasures, along with her faithful dog Tillie.

She is survived by 3 daughters, Vera Lee Jack of Vancouver BC, Canada, Alice Ann Ririe and husband, Edward of Bartlesville, OK and Jonnie Pauleen White and husband Bill of Deming and Gila; 7 grandchildren, Ramona Jack, Jennifer Yeager (Bob), Virginia Bell (Neil), Katherine Yancey (Keith), Karen Distenfano (Juan), Nancy White, John White (Shelley); 15 great-grandchildren, Richard, David and Kathleen Douglas, Kyle and Vanessa Jack, Jennifer and Joshua Shaw, Joseph and Jaquelyn Tarazon, Alex, Morgan, Benjamin and Erynn White, Diana Yeager Smith, Edward and Julianne Yeager, Mike Rood and 3 great-great-grandchildren Belle, Rudy Smith and Georgina Rood.

Preceding her in death are a half-brother, John Lee; sisters, Louella Benson and Jeanne Ashcraft and a brother, Paul.