...my mother, grandmother, and all thru my line were pack rats and kept and clipped everything... ...on a sheet of paper with one of my relatives obits was this obit... ...if you would like the original, contact me at above email and send SASE and it is yours... obit as below...

...this was in the Dallas Morning News from Monday, sept 20, 1954...

Mrs. Esther Brown of Newspaper and Radio Family Dies

Shreveport, LA - Mrs. Esther Ewing Brown, member of a prominent Louisiana newspaper and radio family, was found dead in her home Sunday.

Dr. Charles S. Boone, Deputy Coroner, reported cause of death as accidental suffocation. He said a settee in Mrs. Brown's bedroom was found burned, probably ignited by a cigarette she smoked before she went to bed.

Dr. Boone said she probably awakened when the smoke got dense, struggled thru a doorway into the hall, and then collapsed.

Karen Green-Warren