| Alberta Rose Kepner Brown |
ALBERTA ROSE KEPNER BROWN (Age 88) On Sunday, June 6, 2010 at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital, Gaithersburg,
MD.
Alberta Rose Kepner Brown was born 1922 in Altoona, PA and moved to SE Washington DC in 1934 and graduated from St.
Theresa''s Parochial School in 1937 and as part of the first Anacostia High School graduating class in May 1940.
She met Joseph K. Brown of Capitol Hill (SE DC) in a local roller skating risk at age 13 and married him in 1942.
Alberta worked in Payroll of the Washington Navy Yard until her son Michael J. Brown was born 1948, daughter Cheryl A.
(Brown) Schmidt 1951 and son Patrick W. Brown 1960.
She moved with her family to District Heights, MD in 1952 and attended Mt. Calvary Catholic Church in Forestville, MD.
While a homemaker during this time she also performed clerical work with the Vanguard missile program at the Naval
Research Lab (NRL, DC), Clark''s Music Store in District Heights and at H & R Block.
In 1984 Alberta and her husband retired from NRL and moved to St. Charles in Waldorf, MD and were active in the St.
Peter''s and OLHC Catholic parishes.
Her husband Joseph died in 1992.
She is survived by her children Michael J. Brown, Silver Spring, MD, Cheri Schmidt, Martinsburg, WV and Patrick Brown,
Germantown, M; sister and brother-in-law Patty and George Miller, Las Vegas, NV, brother-in-law John Brown and sons,
Rockville, MD, and niece Patricia L. Haiden, Nanjemoy; and eight grandchildren, Jenni Svites, Maryland, Derick Poppino,
New Jersey, Aaron Brown, Sarah Kay Werner-Brown, Sarah Elizabeth Brown and Stephen Brown, Washington; Kurt Schmidt,
West Virginia and Matt Brown, California. She has three great-grandchildren and many grand dogs.
Arrangements entrusted to Huntt Funeral Home, 3035 Old Washington, Rd,, Waldorf, MD 20602. A viewing and reception
will be held for visitors at the Huntt Funeral Home Wednesday evening, June 9, from 7 to 9 p.m. and a funeral service held at
Our Lady Help of Christians (OLHP), Waldorf, MD on June 10, 2010 with burial at Resurrection Catholic Cemetery in
Clinton, MD.
Published in The Washington Post on June 8, 2010
MD.
Alberta Rose Kepner Brown was born 1922 in Altoona, PA and moved to SE Washington DC in 1934 and graduated from St.
Theresa''s Parochial School in 1937 and as part of the first Anacostia High School graduating class in May 1940.
She met Joseph K. Brown of Capitol Hill (SE DC) in a local roller skating risk at age 13 and married him in 1942.
Alberta worked in Payroll of the Washington Navy Yard until her son Michael J. Brown was born 1948, daughter Cheryl A.
(Brown) Schmidt 1951 and son Patrick W. Brown 1960.
She moved with her family to District Heights, MD in 1952 and attended Mt. Calvary Catholic Church in Forestville, MD.
While a homemaker during this time she also performed clerical work with the Vanguard missile program at the Naval
Research Lab (NRL, DC), Clark''s Music Store in District Heights and at H & R Block.
In 1984 Alberta and her husband retired from NRL and moved to St. Charles in Waldorf, MD and were active in the St.
Peter''s and OLHC Catholic parishes.
Her husband Joseph died in 1992.
She is survived by her children Michael J. Brown, Silver Spring, MD, Cheri Schmidt, Martinsburg, WV and Patrick Brown,
Germantown, M; sister and brother-in-law Patty and George Miller, Las Vegas, NV, brother-in-law John Brown and sons,
Rockville, MD, and niece Patricia L. Haiden, Nanjemoy; and eight grandchildren, Jenni Svites, Maryland, Derick Poppino,
New Jersey, Aaron Brown, Sarah Kay Werner-Brown, Sarah Elizabeth Brown and Stephen Brown, Washington; Kurt Schmidt,
West Virginia and Matt Brown, California. She has three great-grandchildren and many grand dogs.
Arrangements entrusted to Huntt Funeral Home, 3035 Old Washington, Rd,, Waldorf, MD 20602. A viewing and reception
will be held for visitors at the Huntt Funeral Home Wednesday evening, June 9, from 7 to 9 p.m. and a funeral service held at
Our Lady Help of Christians (OLHP), Waldorf, MD on June 10, 2010 with burial at Resurrection Catholic Cemetery in
Clinton, MD.
Published in The Washington Post on June 8, 2010
