Caroline died at her home in Gilbertsville. She was 102 years of age.
She was the daughter of Admiral Alfred W. Johnson and Hannah Harris Johnson of Washington, D.C., and Gilbertsville. She was the sixth great-granddaughter of Abijah Gilbert, an early settler of the village of Gilbertsville, for whom the village is named.
With her Navy parents she lived in Annapolis, Md., Brooklyn, Jamestown, Rhode Island, San Francisco, Shanghai, China, and Santiago, Chile, where, as a child she learned the first of her many languages.
She graduated from Wellesley College in 1926. In 1928, she married James Elwyn Brown, a young Foreign Service Officer of Sewickley, Pa., and Gilbertsville. With her husband she lived in Mexico City, Santo Domingo, Stockholm, London, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Montevideo, Uruguay, Sofia, Bulgaria, Barcelona, Spain and Turin, Italy.
She and her husband were among the last diplomats to be ousted from Havana after Fidel Castro's revolution.
During World War II, she studied cryptanalysis with the Office of Naval Intelligence.
Throughout her life, she painted in watercolor and oil pastel; her subjects were often the places and people where she lived. In 1962, she and her husband retired to Gilbertsville. Mr. Brown died in 1963.
She was a member of the Sulgrave Club and the Chevy Chase Club of Washington, D.C., and the Butternut Valley Garden Club.
She was the daughter of Admiral Alfred W. Johnson and Hannah Harris Johnson of Washington, D.C., and Gilbertsville. She was the sixth great-granddaughter of Abijah Gilbert, an early settler of the village of Gilbertsville, for whom the village is named.
With her Navy parents she lived in Annapolis, Md., Brooklyn, Jamestown, Rhode Island, San Francisco, Shanghai, China, and Santiago, Chile, where, as a child she learned the first of her many languages.
She graduated from Wellesley College in 1926. In 1928, she married James Elwyn Brown, a young Foreign Service Officer of Sewickley, Pa., and Gilbertsville. With her husband she lived in Mexico City, Santo Domingo, Stockholm, London, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Montevideo, Uruguay, Sofia, Bulgaria, Barcelona, Spain and Turin, Italy.
She and her husband were among the last diplomats to be ousted from Havana after Fidel Castro's revolution.
During World War II, she studied cryptanalysis with the Office of Naval Intelligence.
Throughout her life, she painted in watercolor and oil pastel; her subjects were often the places and people where she lived. In 1962, she and her husband retired to Gilbertsville. Mr. Brown died in 1963.
She was a member of the Sulgrave Club and the Chevy Chase Club of Washington, D.C., and the Butternut Valley Garden Club.
Caroline died at her home in Gilbertsville. She was 102 years of age.
She was the daughter of Admiral Alfred W. Johnson and Hannah Harris Johnson of Washington, D.C., and Gilbertsville. She was the sixth great-granddaughter of Abijah Gilbert, an early settler of the village of Gilbertsville, for whom the village is named.
With her Navy parents she lived in Annapolis, Md., Brooklyn, Jamestown, Rhode Island, San Francisco, Shanghai, China, and Santiago, Chile, where, as a child she learned the first of her many languages.
She graduated from Wellesley College in 1926. In 1928, she married James Elwyn Brown, a young Foreign Service Officer of Sewickley, Pa., and Gilbertsville. With her husband she lived in Mexico City, Santo Domingo, Stockholm, London, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Montevideo, Uruguay, Sofia, Bulgaria, Barcelona, Spain and Turin, Italy.
She and her husband were among the last diplomats to be ousted from Havana after Fidel Castro's revolution.
During World War II, she studied cryptanalysis with the Office of Naval Intelligence.
Throughout her life, she painted in watercolor and oil pastel; her subjects were often the places and people where she lived. In 1962, she and her husband retired to Gilbertsville. Mr. Brown died in 1963.
She was a member of the Sulgrave Club and the Chevy Chase Club of Washington, D.C., and the Butternut Valley Garden Club.
She was the daughter of Admiral Alfred W. Johnson and Hannah Harris Johnson of Washington, D.C., and Gilbertsville. She was the sixth great-granddaughter of Abijah Gilbert, an early settler of the village of Gilbertsville, for whom the village is named.
With her Navy parents she lived in Annapolis, Md., Brooklyn, Jamestown, Rhode Island, San Francisco, Shanghai, China, and Santiago, Chile, where, as a child she learned the first of her many languages.
She graduated from Wellesley College in 1926. In 1928, she married James Elwyn Brown, a young Foreign Service Officer of Sewickley, Pa., and Gilbertsville. With her husband she lived in Mexico City, Santo Domingo, Stockholm, London, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Montevideo, Uruguay, Sofia, Bulgaria, Barcelona, Spain and Turin, Italy.
She and her husband were among the last diplomats to be ousted from Havana after Fidel Castro's revolution.
During World War II, she studied cryptanalysis with the Office of Naval Intelligence.
Throughout her life, she painted in watercolor and oil pastel; her subjects were often the places and people where she lived. In 1962, she and her husband retired to Gilbertsville. Mr. Brown died in 1963.
She was a member of the Sulgrave Club and the Chevy Chase Club of Washington, D.C., and the Butternut Valley Garden Club.
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