Terrell Brown, 64, of Bunnlevel passed away on Sunday, March 9, 2025. Memorials will be private.  Services are entrusted to Genesis Mortuary Services of Dunn.

Terrell Antonio Brown was born on Ft. Bragg Army Base in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on March 4, 1961. He never knew his father, but he was raised by Cebie Brown. His mother, Lillie Bernice Brown-Ferby (b. 1932/d. 2021) moved with Terrell, along with brothers Tyrone and Torrance and sister Carmen, to New Haven, Connecticut when Terrell was three months old. He went to Hillhouse High School in New Haven, owned a car stereo installation business, and worked for five years building helicopters at Sikorsky Aircraft in Stratford, CT. In New Haven at age 11 he met his “Big Brother” Toby McLeod, a student at Yale, and they were friends for life. Terrell moved back to Dunn, NC, in 1991. In 2008, after three dates he asked Doretha Smith Brown to marry him. It took two more dates for Doretha to say yes and they moved to Bunnlevel. Terrell helped Dr. Ibrahim Oudeh win election to mayor of Dunn in 1999, and he worked to save the Wilkins Cemetery in Dunn when the Black cemetery was threatened by a proposed road and bridge railroad crossing in 2004. 

Terrell Antonio Brown leaves to cherish his memories his wife Doretha Brown of Bunnlevel, NC. Terrell is survived by his son Terrell Jr. (23) and daughter Kasey Brassard (34), his brother Torrance of Dallas, TX and his sister Carmen of Tulsa, OK, nephews Abhay Johnson and Madhava Johnson, niece Lila Johnson, nephew Leo Noel, niece Patrice Boykin, nephew Torrance Jr., Olivia Mangum-Nurse Betty, of Norrington, NC, Donald Lanier of Bunnlevel, Ariel Lanier of Bunnlevel, Danielle Lanier of Bunnlevel, mother in-law Nettie Ray (Chester) of Erwin, NC, two sister in-laws, Debra and Husband, and Patrica both of Lillington, NC, two brother in-laws, William (Jasmine), and Bernard both of Angier, NC, three grandchildren, two great grandchildren, and his and Doretha’s Yorkie, Beautiful Bell Brown (“BB”). 

Terrell is pre-deceased by his mother Lillie Brown, his brother Oliver Tyrone Johnson, and beloved Smokey, his and Doretha’s canine friend for the last 15 years.