GENEVIEVE BROWN
MRS. HELEN M. BROWN
NAOMI STRONG
Yuma Sentinel
May 15, 1914

Miss Genevieve Brown, music teacher in the Yuma Grammar School 
and her mother perished in the flames at the Imperial Hotel. 
This was determined at 1:30 o'clock this morning when Marshal 
Henry Levy and Fire Chief N.S. Parks found two bodies at the 
head of the stairs near the door entering the room which they 
occupied.  All of the other roomers and guests of the hotel 
had been accounted for excepting Miss Brown and Mrs. Brown.

Miss Brown and her mother came to Yuma last fall after she 
had been employed as music teacher in the grammar school.  
They came here from Los Angeles, but their home was in the 
eastern part of the Country. Miss Brown had made a great 
success in Yuma and she and her mother had a wide circle 
of friends.  The bodies will probably be shipped to 
Manchester, Michigan, the old home of the Browns before 
coming to the coast.  William M. Hough, a brother of Mrs. 
Brown, arrived in Yuma to settle personal affairs and 
accompany the remains to Michigan.

At two o'clock this morning the body of a third woman was 
found in the wreckage of the burned building.  This body 
was identified as the body of Miss Naomi Strong, teacher 
of the Eighth grade in the grammar school.  The body of 
Miss Strong was found in her room.  Miss Strong was a 
sister of Mrs. Hugo Farmer.  She came to Yuma last fall 
and took a position in the grammar school.  Her body was 
shipped to Cherokee, Oklahoma, her former home and the 
present home of her parents. Her father is a Methodist 
minister and President of the Methodist Sunday School 
Convention of his state.  Miss Strong will be laid to 
rest in the cemetery in her home town.  The remains 
were accompanied by Hugo F. Farmer, not her sister as 
previously.  She was a splendid woman, a very strong 
teacher and was loved alike by her pupils and fellow 
teachers.

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