Dolores "Do-Dee" Brown joined the Arlington County Police Department in 1954. She attended the police academy in 1957 and was the first sworn female police officer for Arlington County. She was never assigned to uniformed patrol, spending her entire career in plainclothes in various sections of the Criminal Investigations Branch. She was assigned to the Juvenile Bureau, as an Arson Investigator in partnership with the Arlington County Fire Department, as a School Resource Officer and her last assignment in the Juvenile/Sex Crimes unit. She did work handling Child Abuse cases and was on the Governor's Task Force to address Child Abuse.
She retired in July of 1986. After retirement from the police department, she worked as an Assistant Manager for Bowl America and then for Renewing Love Ministries.
She is survived by her daughter, Lt. Roxanne Brown-Ankney, United States Park Police, her son-in-law Cpl. Kevin Ankney, Falls Church Police Department, grandchildren Joshua and Miranda Ankney, her sister Dawn Whiteman, niece and nephew Cherie Carty and William Ireland, as well as other family members.
Visitation will be:
August 7th (Wednesday) 1500-1800 hours at
Everly-Wheatley Funeral Home
1500 West Braddock Road
Alexandria, Va 22302
703-998-9200
Service will be:
August 8th (Thrusday) 1100 hours at
Everly-Wheatley Funeral Home
1500 West Braddock Road
Alexandria, Va 22302
Internment to followservice (Aprrox 1145 hours)
Ivy Hill Cemetery
2823 King Street
Alexandria Va 22302
703-549-7413
Reception to follow internment (Approx. 1230 hours)
Alexandria Police Association Hall
3010 Colvin Street
Alexandria VA 22314
703-823-6298
IT IS REQUESTED that in-lieu of flowers that donations be sent to the Virginia Chapter of C.O.P.S. (Concerns of Police Survivors)
P.O. Box 3295 Henrico, VA 23228
C/O Sue A. Cheney
www.vacops.org
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DoDee is inurned with her parents (marked with a shared tombstone), above her father in the same site, and currently has no marker of her own.
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Dolores "Do-Dee" Brown joined the Arlington County Police Department in 1954. She attended the police academy in 1957 and was the first sworn female police officer for Arlington County. She was never assigned to uniformed patrol, spending her entire career in plainclothes in various sections of the Criminal Investigations Branch. She was assigned to the Juvenile Bureau, as an Arson Investigator in partnership with the Arlington County Fire Department, as a School Resource Officer and her last assignment in the Juvenile/Sex Crimes unit. She did work handling Child Abuse cases and was on the Governor's Task Force to address Child Abuse.
She retired in July of 1986. After retirement from the police department, she worked as an Assistant Manager for Bowl America and then for Renewing Love Ministries.
She is survived by her daughter, Lt. Roxanne Brown-Ankney, United States Park Police, her son-in-law Cpl. Kevin Ankney, Falls Church Police Department, grandchildren Joshua and Miranda Ankney, her sister Dawn Whiteman, niece and nephew Cherie Carty and William Ireland, as well as other family members.
Visitation will be:
August 7th (Wednesday) 1500-1800 hours at
Everly-Wheatley Funeral Home
1500 West Braddock Road
Alexandria, Va 22302
703-998-9200
Service will be:
August 8th (Thrusday) 1100 hours at
Everly-Wheatley Funeral Home
1500 West Braddock Road
Alexandria, Va 22302
Internment to followservice (Aprrox 1145 hours)
Ivy Hill Cemetery
2823 King Street
Alexandria Va 22302
703-549-7413
Reception to follow internment (Approx. 1230 hours)
Alexandria Police Association Hall
3010 Colvin Street
Alexandria VA 22314
703-823-6298
IT IS REQUESTED that in-lieu of flowers that donations be sent to the Virginia Chapter of C.O.P.S. (Concerns of Police Survivors)
P.O. Box 3295 Henrico, VA 23228
C/O Sue A. Cheney
www.vacops.org
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DoDee is inurned with her parents (marked with a shared tombstone), above her father in the same site, and currently has no marker of her own.
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Currently inurned in unmarked space over her father.
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