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Olive V.  Brown

 

    Olive V. (Rowe) Brown  died Friday evening, December 8, 2006 at the Rivercrest Long Term Care Facility in Concord, she was 88.  Born on August 3, 1918 in Malden, MA she was the daughter of the late Albert & Winifred (Stacy) Rowe.  Olive was raised in Malden and educated in the Malden School system. She was a graduate of Malden High School in the 1930's. After her schooling she met and married her husband Albert W. Brown in mid 1935. The couple settled in Malden and raised their two children Albert and Diane.

    Olive later attended and graduated from the Bunker Hill Community College in Charlestown, where she received her training in health and nutrition.  She settled in a job and worked as a dietary health aid for the Dexter House Nursing home for over sixteen years, later retiring in 1979.  Olive was a longtime and very active member of the former Centre United Methodist Church, Malden.  She was a member of Malden Old & New, the Converse Masonic Lodge and served as a Pythian Sister, and past president of the lodge. She was a  loving and caring volunteer at the Malden Hospital for many years.

     She was the  mother of  Albert Browne and his wife Judy of Missouri, Diane Helsel and her husband Richard of Littleton,  her grandchildren Winniefred  Waldrip and her husband  Adam  of Everett, Wendy Orfan and her husband  Nicholas of Maryland, Albert Browne and his wife Beth of Missouri, Paul Everard and his wife Mary of VA, her one great-granddaughter  Alex Everard  and her seven great-grandson’s Daniel Waldrip, Emett Orfan, Gabriel Browne, Albert Browne  II, Brendan  Browne, Joshua Browne  and  Elias Orfan.

     She was preceded in death by her husband   Albert W. Brown in 1973, her brother’s Albert and Harvey Rowe, her sister’s Cora Denley  and Winnifred Wandelear.

 Contributions in Olive’s memory may be made to the Good Shepherd United Methodist Church, 577 Salem St., Malden. 

 Relatives and friends are invited to visiting hours in the funeral home on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 from 2-4 & 7-9.

     Funeral services will be held in the Weir-Mac Cuish Golden Rule Funeral Home, 144 Salem St. Malden on Wednesday, December 13, 2006 at 10AM.  Rev. Ruth R. Oduor, Pastor of Good Shepherd United Methodist Church will be officiating.  Burial will be in the Forest Dale Cemetery in Malden.

 

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