OBIT: Jane Wilhelmina (GRAVES) BROWN, 1985, native of Somerset County, PA
  
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  JANE BROWN
  
    Jane Wilhelmina Graves Brown died at Centre County Community
  Hospital, State College, Penna., Saturday, April 20 at 10:35 a.m. 
  For the past three months she had been a resident at Toftrees
  Renaissance, State College.
    Born in Meyersdale on January 15, 1896 she was the daughter of
  Christine Holzshu Graves and William Alonzo Graves, she was one of
  Meyersdales' longest residing citizens.  On September 14, 1918 she
  was married in Baltimore, Maryland to Thomas Boone Brown, a prominent
  coal operator who died October 3, 1943.
    Mrs. Brown attended Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore,
  Maryland in 1916-1917.  Upon the death of her husband in 1943, she
  assumed the operatorship of Quality Coal Company and Quality
  Smokeless Coal Company of Goodtown and Pine Hill respectively.  This
  position she held for seven years.
    For many years an active member and financial secretary of Amity
  United Church of Christ of Meyersdale; she had also been a member of
  the Ladies' Bible Class and Guild.
    Interested in the Meyersdale Garden Club, Mrs. Brown served as Vice
  President and Program Chairman of that club for more than a decade.
    She is survived by her daughter, Jean Elizabeth Brown Forster of
  State College, Penna.; and a son, Thomas Boone Brown, Jr., also of
  state College.  Also surviving are fourteen grandchildren and eleven
  great-grandchildren.  She was preceded in death by a son, Jack
  Garrett Brown and a daughter, Joan Christine Brown Walsh.
    A memorial service will be held at the Faith United Church of
  Christ, College Avenue and Locust Lane, State College on Sunday April
  28th at 2:30 p.m.
    An interment service will be held at the Union Cemetery, Meyersdale
  in early summer at the convenience of the people and interested people
  in Meyersdale and environs.
    In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Amity United
  Church of Christ, Meyersdale, Penna., 15552 or Meyersdale Public
  Library.
  
  The Republic, April 25, 1985
  
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