Delsa Barnes Brown was born June 17, 1927 in Pueblo, Colorado to Jethro and Freida Beck. Her parents met in Arkansas and moved to Pueblo for work in the steel mills. Delsa died December 13, 2016.  She was preceded in death by her first husband Donald Barnes (1962), second husband Robert Brown (1990), her parents Jethro and Freida, and brothers Vernon and Wayne. She is survived by her two children Donna Nelson of Lafayette, California and Darleen Barnes of Woodside, California, and grandchild Aaron Nelson and great-grandchild Rylan Nelson. She enjoyed a special relationship with Sylvia Alred. She spent many years as the sponse of husbands on active duty in the military.