Beth Tilden Browne
Obituary

Loving mother, grandmother, great grandmother, sister, and friend, Beth Tilden Browne passed on a warm and sunny Sunday on the 12th of July 2026 in Lake Forest, California.

Beth was born in Memphis, Tennessee on February 24, 1937. She attended Oklahoma State University where she was chosen Honorary Cadet Colonel of the Second Regiment her sophomore year. After marriage Beth lived in Japan for several years, then Tucson, Arizona in the early 60s moving to Del Mar, California for a year and then to La Jolla, California in 1967. In 1986 she opened a Mail Boxes Etc. franchise in Point Loma, California and went on to work for UPS for 20+ years. She attended the United Methodist Church in San Diego, California and donated much of her time to the church through volunteering activities. Beth remained in San Diego, California for 50 years until moving to Laguna Niguel, California to be near her daughter Lisa.

Beth loved music, dancing, flowers, and trying new recipes. She believed being a mom, grandmother, and great grandmother were her real successes in life.

Beth was a breast cancer survivor and a Reach to Recovery Volunteer for the American Cancer Society. Having lost her mother and an aunt to breast Cancer she participated in the Making Strides and Susan J. Komen Walks for Breast Cancer, and for several years raised money for Daffodil Days for the fight against all types of cancer.

Beth is survived by her son, Mark Greene and his wife Jill Greene in Gig Harbor, Washington, her daughter, Lisa Torbenson and her husband Tim Torbenson in Rancho Mission Viejo, and her brother David Edmark in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Her grandchildren Paige Torkelson and husband Matthew Torkelson, Kirstyn Krause and her husband Adam Krause and Blake Greene and his wife Vrinda Zaveri. Beth had three great grandchildren, Gunnar, Evie, and Gemma, Paige’s and Matthew’s children, and a fourth great grandson who is due in October to Kirstyn and Adam.

A poem mom wished to share:

When we have done all the work we were sent to Earth to do, we are allowed to shed our body, which imprisons our soul like a cocoon encloses the future butterfly.

And when the time is right, we can let go of it and we will be free of pain, free of fears, and worries - free as a very beautiful butterfly, returning home to God.

-Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Beth’s memory to the Susan J. Koman Foundation, The American Cancer Society, the American Lung Association, The Michael J. Fox organization, the American Parkinson’s Disease Association, and Drive Toward a Cure for Parkinson’s Disease.