MRS PERRIN B. BROWN SUCCUMBS AT ROME
ROME, Ga., Sept. 25. - Funeral services were held Friday afternoon from her residence here for Mrs. Perrin B. Brown, well-known figure in literary and journalistic circles in the state, conducted by Dr. Bunyan Stephens and assisted by Dr. Richard Hall. Mrs. Brown suffered an attack of ptomaine poison. Mrs. Brown wrote under two pen names, Robin Red and Ethel Hillyer Harris. She was a member of all patriotic organizations there and organized the local Writers' Club. She was formerly an officer in the Rome Woman's Club and an officer of Nibelung Club. Her articles appeared in southern papers and magazines for a number of years. She was the daughter of the late Dr. Eben Hillyer and Mrs. Georgia Cooley Hillyer, a great-niece of Mrs. Martha Shorter, for whom Shorter College is named, and a granddaughter of Judge Junius Hllyer, of Athens. Her first husband was Willis Hamilton Harris. She is survived by her second husband, a daughter, Mrs. Ben C. Yancey; a grandson, Hamilton Yancey, and a niece, Mrs. Calder Willingham.
Published in The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday, September 26, 1931, Page 17
Contributor: David Hillyer (49657898) • [email protected]
ROME, Ga., Sept. 25. - Funeral services were held Friday afternoon from her residence here for Mrs. Perrin B. Brown, well-known figure in literary and journalistic circles in the state, conducted by Dr. Bunyan Stephens and assisted by Dr. Richard Hall. Mrs. Brown suffered an attack of ptomaine poison. Mrs. Brown wrote under two pen names, Robin Red and Ethel Hillyer Harris. She was a member of all patriotic organizations there and organized the local Writers' Club. She was formerly an officer in the Rome Woman's Club and an officer of Nibelung Club. Her articles appeared in southern papers and magazines for a number of years. She was the daughter of the late Dr. Eben Hillyer and Mrs. Georgia Cooley Hillyer, a great-niece of Mrs. Martha Shorter, for whom Shorter College is named, and a granddaughter of Judge Junius Hllyer, of Athens. Her first husband was Willis Hamilton Harris. She is survived by her second husband, a daughter, Mrs. Ben C. Yancey; a grandson, Hamilton Yancey, and a niece, Mrs. Calder Willingham.
Published in The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday, September 26, 1931, Page 17
Contributor: David Hillyer (49657898) • [email protected]
MRS PERRIN B. BROWN SUCCUMBS AT ROME
ROME, Ga., Sept. 25. - Funeral services were held Friday afternoon from her residence here for Mrs. Perrin B. Brown, well-known figure in literary and journalistic circles in the state, conducted by Dr. Bunyan Stephens and assisted by Dr. Richard Hall. Mrs. Brown suffered an attack of ptomaine poison. Mrs. Brown wrote under two pen names, Robin Red and Ethel Hillyer Harris. She was a member of all patriotic organizations there and organized the local Writers' Club. She was formerly an officer in the Rome Woman's Club and an officer of Nibelung Club. Her articles appeared in southern papers and magazines for a number of years. She was the daughter of the late Dr. Eben Hillyer and Mrs. Georgia Cooley Hillyer, a great-niece of Mrs. Martha Shorter, for whom Shorter College is named, and a granddaughter of Judge Junius Hllyer, of Athens. Her first husband was Willis Hamilton Harris. She is survived by her second husband, a daughter, Mrs. Ben C. Yancey; a grandson, Hamilton Yancey, and a niece, Mrs. Calder Willingham.
Published in The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday, September 26, 1931, Page 17
Contributor: David Hillyer (49657898) • [email protected]
ROME, Ga., Sept. 25. - Funeral services were held Friday afternoon from her residence here for Mrs. Perrin B. Brown, well-known figure in literary and journalistic circles in the state, conducted by Dr. Bunyan Stephens and assisted by Dr. Richard Hall. Mrs. Brown suffered an attack of ptomaine poison. Mrs. Brown wrote under two pen names, Robin Red and Ethel Hillyer Harris. She was a member of all patriotic organizations there and organized the local Writers' Club. She was formerly an officer in the Rome Woman's Club and an officer of Nibelung Club. Her articles appeared in southern papers and magazines for a number of years. She was the daughter of the late Dr. Eben Hillyer and Mrs. Georgia Cooley Hillyer, a great-niece of Mrs. Martha Shorter, for whom Shorter College is named, and a granddaughter of Judge Junius Hllyer, of Athens. Her first husband was Willis Hamilton Harris. She is survived by her second husband, a daughter, Mrs. Ben C. Yancey; a grandson, Hamilton Yancey, and a niece, Mrs. Calder Willingham.
Published in The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday, September 26, 1931, Page 17
Contributor: David Hillyer (49657898) • [email protected]
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