Obit: Brown, Frances M. (1894? - 1986)

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Brown, Hogg, Tibbets, Bodamer

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) December 17, 1986

Brown, Frances M. (1894? - December 1986)

Frances M. Brown, 92, Neillsville, died at Memorial Home, Neillsville, where she had lived for the past six years.

Frances Hogg was born in Rockford, Illinois.  She moved to Jackson County with her parents in 1897. She graduated from Melrose High School in 1911, from Lawrence University in 1915 and the Wisconsin Library School in 1916.  She moved to Neillsville in 1921, where she was a librarian until she married Franklin Brown, January 1, 1923 in Neillsville.

Survivors include two daughters, Marguerite Tibbets, Beloit, Joan Bodamer, Thorp; a brother, seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

Services were held at 11:00 a.m., Saturday, December 13, 1986 at Gesche Funeral home, Neillsville, with burial in Neillsville City Cemetery.