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Date: May, 22 2025
At Adoray, we are honored to support our patients not only in comfort and care but also in helping them reflect on and share the legacy of their lives. Through our End of Life Doula program, we are working on a Legacy Project for Audrey Brown to reflect her lifelong passion for storytelling. As part of her Legacy Project, Audrey is sharing the stories she’s written over a lifetime, stories that have touched hearts, inspired imagination, and now serve as a beautiful reminder of the power of words. To honor Audrey’s enduring legacy and love for stories, we are inviting our Adoray staff, volunteers, and community to be part of it.
**Read Audrey’s Work - Copies of Audrey’s books are available at the Adoray Office (990 Main Street, Suite 1, Baldwin, WI 54002). We welcome you to pick up one and immerse yourself in her storytelling.
**Send a Card - Whether you’ve read one of her books in the past or just discovered them now, we invite you to send Audrey a card. Let’s flood her with love, appreciation, and encouragement. Your kind words will mean the world to her as we honor a lifetime of creativity and courage. Please send/bring cards to the Adoray Office to be collected and delivered to Audrey.
Audrey’s story:
Audrey has been a storyteller her entire adult life. She enchanted her five children with many bedtime stories drawn from her youth. During this same time, she won several contests in the St. Paul Pioneer Press with her Christmas stories. When her children were grown, she began writing fiction in the mid-1980s. Her first short story, Dorothy and Anna, was published by COMPAS Literary Post in a collection titled Cellar Doors and Hollyhocks in 1988.
With more stories to tell, Audrey began working on her first novel, The Thinking Chair, and founded her own publishing company, Gently Press. Audrey self-published The Thinking Chair in 2002, with several reprints produced over the years. Her second novel, It Happened at Graystone Manor, was written and published in 2013.
Now nearing 99 years old, Audrey still enjoys a good story! She is very happy to know her books are being donated to so many people and places and hopes that her books delight many readers yet to come!
This Legacy Project is a beautiful example of how our End of Life Doulas help patients find purpose, reflection, and joy in their final chapter.
Thank you for helping spread Audrey’s Story & Legacy of a storyteller whose words have touched so many and will continue to inspire generations to come.
