Obituary for Jessie Ellen Brown
Mrs. Jessie Ellen Brown, 102-year-old member of a pioneer Johnson County family, died Saturday night at the Shawnee Mission Health center.
Mrs. Brown, born in Knox County, Illinois, moved to Johnson County in 1866 in a wagon train from Illinois. She lived
with a daughter-in-law, Mrs. J.
Lester Brown, 5711 Sheridan
drive, Mission, before entering
the center a year ago.
About 200 friends and rela
tives helped Mrs. Brown ob
serve her 102nd birthday anni
versary last October 5. She was
a charter member of the old Mission Methodist church and
attended Baker univeristy.
In 1963 Mrs. Brown was hon
ored at the university as mother
of the year. All five of her chil
dren were graduated from the school.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Jessie LaVerne Dart, 900 Armour boulevard, five grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.
Services will be held at 2 o'clock Tuesday at the church; burial in the Olathe cemetery. Friends may call after 4 o'clock today at the
ewcomer chapel in Overland Park.
The family requests no flower and uggests contribution to the memorial fund of Old Mi ion Methodi t church.