Ida Mae Brown, Ida_brown
Ida M. Brown died Thursday, July 19, 2007, at the Flint Hills Care Center. She was 94.
The Roberts-Blue-Barnett Funeral Home will announce services.
There will be no memorial service for Ida Mae Brown. Mrs. Brown was cremated. The private inurnment service will be at a later date in Osborne Cemetery at Osborne.
Memorial contributions to the Emporia Salvation Army may be sent in care of the Roberts-Blue-Barnett Funeral Home, P.O. Box 175, Emporia, KS 66801.
Mrs. Brown, 1228 West St., died Thursday, July 19, 2007, at the Flint Hills Care Center. She was 94.
The daughter of Wesley Ray and Mary E. Caruthers McColl, she was born Sept. 14, 1912, in rural Osborne County. She graduated from Research Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., as a registered nurse and from Gradwould School of Medical Technology in St. Louis with a degree in medical technology.
She married Dr. Andrew P. Brown on June 10, 1936, at Covert. He died Nov. 11, 1941, at Tendel Field, Fla.
She was a registered nurse and worked with her husband in Osborne until World War II. She then worked at Huntersfield Air Force Base in Hunterfield, Ga. She moved to Emporia in 1946 after the death of her husband, who contracted polio during the war. In Emporia, she worked at St. Mary’s Hospital and for Dr. Spencer and then many years for Dr. Underwood as a laboratory technologist.
Mrs. Brown was a member of the First United Methodist Church, where she taught Sunday school and senior Bible class for years, was a member of the United Methodist Women and a church circle. She also was a member of Altrusa Club, Cosmopolitan Club, the Salvation Army advisory board, Miriam Chapter 14 of the Order of the Eastern Star and Past Matrons Club and Friends of International Students at Emporia State University. She tutored foreign students in English.
She is survived by one daughter, Mary Elizabeth Hallford of Emporia; one son, Andrew Porter Brown of Baltimore, Md.; six grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
A sister, Laura E. SanRomani; and a brother, Lawrence McColl, died earlier.