EASTWOOD, Leah Brown, 102, of 1021 Woodlawn Ave., Beckley, West Virginia, died Thursday, May 30, 1996. Born Sept. 10, 1893 in Wythe County, Va., she was the daughter of the late Rev. James A. and Alice Virginia Sharitz Brown. Her father was a well-known Lutheran pastor, riding horseback to serve churches throughout western Wythe County in the 1800's.
Mrs. Eastwood spent her early years on the family farm near Wytheville, Va., and attended Marion College, Marion, Va. She was a graduate of Elizabeth College in Salem, Va., She majored in art and painted a number of pictures in her early years. She was a homemaker and served with her husband, a Methodist minister, as he pastored churches in the Holston Conference in Tennessee and the West Virginia Conference.
She was preceded in death in 1980 by her husband, Dr. C. Glenn Eastwood, and by a brother, James A. Brown, and a sister Ruth Brown Kegley, both of Wytheville. She was the oldest member of the Beckley United Methodist Temple, where she was a member of Circle #1 and the United Methodist Women. She was known as "Auntie," by her family and friends.
Survivors include two nieces, Ginny Brown, Beckley, whom she raised, and Margaret Spraker, Wytheville; and three nephews, Jimmy Brown and James Kegley, both of Wytheville, and George Kegley, Roanoke, Va.; eight great-nieces and nephews and three great-great nieces and a great-great nephew.
The funeral will be at the United Methodist Temple, Beckley, West Va. Burial at St. John's Lutheran Cemetery.
Roanoke Times, June 1, 1996
Mrs. Eastwood spent her early years on the family farm near Wytheville, Va., and attended Marion College, Marion, Va. She was a graduate of Elizabeth College in Salem, Va., She majored in art and painted a number of pictures in her early years. She was a homemaker and served with her husband, a Methodist minister, as he pastored churches in the Holston Conference in Tennessee and the West Virginia Conference.
She was preceded in death in 1980 by her husband, Dr. C. Glenn Eastwood, and by a brother, James A. Brown, and a sister Ruth Brown Kegley, both of Wytheville. She was the oldest member of the Beckley United Methodist Temple, where she was a member of Circle #1 and the United Methodist Women. She was known as "Auntie," by her family and friends.
Survivors include two nieces, Ginny Brown, Beckley, whom she raised, and Margaret Spraker, Wytheville; and three nephews, Jimmy Brown and James Kegley, both of Wytheville, and George Kegley, Roanoke, Va.; eight great-nieces and nephews and three great-great nieces and a great-great nephew.
The funeral will be at the United Methodist Temple, Beckley, West Va. Burial at St. John's Lutheran Cemetery.
Roanoke Times, June 1, 1996
EASTWOOD, Leah Brown, 102, of 1021 Woodlawn Ave., Beckley, West Virginia, died Thursday, May 30, 1996. Born Sept. 10, 1893 in Wythe County, Va., she was the daughter of the late Rev. James A. and Alice Virginia Sharitz Brown. Her father was a well-known Lutheran pastor, riding horseback to serve churches throughout western Wythe County in the 1800's.
Mrs. Eastwood spent her early years on the family farm near Wytheville, Va., and attended Marion College, Marion, Va. She was a graduate of Elizabeth College in Salem, Va., She majored in art and painted a number of pictures in her early years. She was a homemaker and served with her husband, a Methodist minister, as he pastored churches in the Holston Conference in Tennessee and the West Virginia Conference.
She was preceded in death in 1980 by her husband, Dr. C. Glenn Eastwood, and by a brother, James A. Brown, and a sister Ruth Brown Kegley, both of Wytheville. She was the oldest member of the Beckley United Methodist Temple, where she was a member of Circle #1 and the United Methodist Women. She was known as "Auntie," by her family and friends.
Survivors include two nieces, Ginny Brown, Beckley, whom she raised, and Margaret Spraker, Wytheville; and three nephews, Jimmy Brown and James Kegley, both of Wytheville, and George Kegley, Roanoke, Va.; eight great-nieces and nephews and three great-great nieces and a great-great nephew.
The funeral will be at the United Methodist Temple, Beckley, West Va. Burial at St. John's Lutheran Cemetery.
Roanoke Times, June 1, 1996
Mrs. Eastwood spent her early years on the family farm near Wytheville, Va., and attended Marion College, Marion, Va. She was a graduate of Elizabeth College in Salem, Va., She majored in art and painted a number of pictures in her early years. She was a homemaker and served with her husband, a Methodist minister, as he pastored churches in the Holston Conference in Tennessee and the West Virginia Conference.
She was preceded in death in 1980 by her husband, Dr. C. Glenn Eastwood, and by a brother, James A. Brown, and a sister Ruth Brown Kegley, both of Wytheville. She was the oldest member of the Beckley United Methodist Temple, where she was a member of Circle #1 and the United Methodist Women. She was known as "Auntie," by her family and friends.
Survivors include two nieces, Ginny Brown, Beckley, whom she raised, and Margaret Spraker, Wytheville; and three nephews, Jimmy Brown and James Kegley, both of Wytheville, and George Kegley, Roanoke, Va.; eight great-nieces and nephews and three great-great nieces and a great-great nephew.
The funeral will be at the United Methodist Temple, Beckley, West Va. Burial at St. John's Lutheran Cemetery.
Roanoke Times, June 1, 1996
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