110 - Kristine K. Brown - Grace Hill Cemetery - Perry, OK
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Kristine Brown was born the same year (1897) that Francis P. Church responded to a letter to the editor that is known as the famous "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" letter.
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Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 09/09/2022
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The final resting place of supercentenarian Kristine K. Brown is at the northwest side of Grace Hill Cemetery, in section D, next to her mother M. Josephine. She has a medium sized upright marker that has the following inscription:
Kristine K. Brown
1897-2007
Kristine's obituary, from her Find a Grave memorial: (
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Obituary courtesy of Wharton Funeral Chapel:
Kristine K., Daughter of James A. and M. Josephine (Van Slyke) Klostermyer was born September 8, 1897 in Rockville, Missouri. She passed away at the Alva Share Medical Center on the 19th of December, 2007 at the age of 110 years, 3 months and 11 days.
In 1901 the family moved near Perry, Oklahoma and she attended the Perry Public School and two years of High School. She went to the S.D.A. Southwestern Junior College in Keene, Texas, where she received her High School diploma. She went to the Union College at Lincoln, Nebraska and received her B.S. degree from Colorado State College of Education at Greeley, Colorado, her M.A. from Teacher's College at Columbia University in New York City, New York. She did graduate work at O.U., O.S.U., University of Colorado, U.C.L.A. and the University of Washington.
Miss Klostermyer was married to Kenneth E. Brown on December 24, 1925 at Perry, Oklahoma.
She started teaching in the Lone Elm Rural Grade School District #81 near Perry in Noble County in 1935. She then went to New Jersey State Teachers College in Patterson, New Jersey. During WWII while her husband was in service she taught at Northern Oklahoma Junior College in Tonkawa. After the war they went to North Carolina State Teachers College at Greenville, North Carolina. In 1947 she came to Northwestern State College in Alva until she retired in 1965.
She was a member of the Alva Seventh Day Adventist Church, the Delta Kappa Gamma, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, the O.E.A, the N.E.A., the A.A.U.W., the Kappa Delta Pi and the D.A.R.
Mrs. Brown was preceded in death by her parents and a brother, Louis Leon Klostermyer.