Bess Brown

Present address: 2104 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Md.

Bessie Brown will visit Ethel Carr, at her home in Durham, N.C.

May 1907 Kalends:

Bess Brown has been visiting in Savannah, Georgia, where she was bridesmaid for Jane Smart.

October 16, 1919 Goucher College Weekly:

Elizabeth Brown and Major Frank Thomas Fort, Medical Corps, USA were married June 4.

November 1941 Alumnae Quarterly:


Bess Brown Fort spent the summer at her cottage in Wequetonsing, Mich. Her son, Charles, who graduated in June from the Webb School (same family as Mary, Cornelia, and Sarah Webb) in Bell Buckle, Tenn., has entered the Michigan School of Mining and Technology.

Spring 1962


IN MEMORIAM
Bess Brown, as she was always known in college days, died in January at the home of her son in Louisville, Ky. She had been a resident there for 40 years. She had married Dr. Frank Thomas Fort, a prominent surgeon of Louisville, at almost the time of World War I and grew to love Louisville so much that after his death many years ago, she decided to stay on in her big house in spite of the urgings of Baltimore friends, who hoped she might come back.
She was very active in civic affairs, a member of the Woman's Club, Country CLub, Pendennis Club, and Christ Church Cathedral. Although she was badly crippled by a broken hip some years ago, and was forced to use crutches, she drove her car, kept up her activities and was quite undaunted by physical handicaps.
Her son, Charles Brown Fort, and 2 grandchildren survive her.
We shall always remember her gay spirit, her wonderful loyalty to old friends, and we'll miss the long letters she wrote from time to time. Nell Watts Clark '05

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