Lila L. Brummett

Lila L. Brummett, age 78, of Grants Pass, died Tuesday, April 8, 2014 at Rogue Regional Medical Center.

A celebration of life will be at 1:00 p.m., Saturday, April 19, 2014 at Jerome Prairie Bible Church with Pastor James Downing & Pastor Ken Bern officiating. Hull & Hull Funeral Directors are in charge of arrangements.

Flowers are welcome at the celebration of life.

Lila was born May 6, 1935 in Lafayette, Indiana to Edward & Emily Hathaway. She attended schools in Attica, Indiana. On November 10, 1951 in Lafayette she married Bryce D. Brummett and in July 1959 they moved from Lafayette to Grants Pass. She worked as a housekeeper at Josephine Memorial Hospital for a few years. She enjoyed raising her children and having the neighbor kids over.

Lila attended Rivers of Life Foursquare Church for many years.

She was a published poet and creative writer, and was an avid reader of Western and Christian romance. Lila also enjoyed flower gardening, feeding the birds, and loved nature.

In addition to her husband, Bryce Brummett of Grants Pass, Oregon; Lila is survived by four children, Vickie Chandler and husband Greg, Emily McAlister and husband Greg, Tim Brummett and wife Karen all of Grants Pass and Tami Schamp of Eugene, Oregon; a sister, Katherine Leach of Beaverton, Oregon; 15 grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.

She was preceded in death by a son, Bryce “Butch” Brummett Jr on June 3, 2009; a daughter, Joetta Brummett on February 9, 2014; an infant granddaughter; and six siblings.