Nita Jane Brown

Nita Jane Brown, 92, Pomeroy, passed away on Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2008, at the Pleasant Valley Hospital.

She was born on Jan. 1, 1916, in Columbus, Ohio, to the late Edward and Ruth Ann Coughenour Priode.

She was a registered nurse, and had been employed with her brother-in-law, Dr. H.D. Brown Sr. and nephew, Dr. H.D. Brown, Jr. She also worked as an industrial nurse at Kaiser Aluminum Corporation, and was later hired by the American Lung Association and the Meigs County Commissioners as the Tuberculosis Nurse for Meigs County.

Jane founded the Meigs County Tuberculosis Clinic and directed the clinic for 12 years, working with a newly formed board and county commissioners.

She was a member of the Pomeroy United Methodist Church, Pomeroy Eastern Star, Ohio Nurses Association and Preceptor Beta Beta-Beta Sigma Phi. She served on first formed Home Health Services, the Mental Health and Retardation 648 Board, Cancer Board and was a former member of the Middleport Amateur Garden Club.

In addition to her parents, she is preceded in death by her husband, Russell R. Brown, son, Dr. Robert Brown, brothers, Charles and James Priode, half brother, Harold Long, and her sister, Leona Domon.

She is survived by grandson, Robert R. and Alyssa Brown, Austin, Texas, great grandson, Mason Robert Brown, Austin, daughter-in-law, Gail Grant, San Antonio, Texas, nephew, Dr. Harold and Lynn Brown, Pomeroy, and their children: Nathan Brown of Columbus, Anne Brown of Chicago and Jeffery Brown of New Orleans; sister-in-law, Mildred Long, Middleport, and ten nieces and nephews.

Services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 8, 2008, at the Fisher Anderson McDaniel Funeral Homes in Pomeroy with the Rev. Brian Dunham officiating. Entombment will follow at the Gravel Hill Cemetery in Cheshire, Ohio.

Visitation will be held on hour prior to funeral service.

Gallipolis Daily Tribune
February 7, 2008.