MARY MILDRED BRAIN

Class of 1929

Mary Mildred Brain was the daughter of Joseph Brain and Mary Bilpuch, both born in Czechoslovakia. Mary's delayed birth record indicates she was born January 26, 1907 in Nicholson Twp, Grayslanding, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.

In 1920, residents of Pike Run Road, Washington County, Pennsylvania, the mother was a midwife, and the father worked in the coal mine. The children were Joe, Andrew, Mary, George, and John.

The Morning Herald, Uniontown, Pa., August 15, 1933: "Miss Mary Brain, who has been spending the past ten months in Brooklyn arrived home last week to spend a vacation with her mother, Mrs. Mary Brain, New Salem. Miss Brain, a trained nurse, has been on duty in New York."

Mary Mildred Brain is listed at 1095 Park Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. in the list of Registered Nurses with a Pennsylvania license in 1940-1941.

Her brother, Dr. Joseph Brain, died in 1949 at age 45.

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FATHER'S OBITUARY: Uniontown Morning Herald, March 10, 1950 -- Joseph Brain Rites Set for Saturday - Prayer service for Joseph Brain, 67, Duck Hollow Road, South Union township, will be held in the home at 8:30 a.m., Saturday, followed by Requiem High Mass in St. Mary's R. C. Church, the Rev. John Blazic will be celebrant. Burial will follow in the church cemetery under direction of the Haky Funeral Home. - Mr. Brain died at 3:20 p.m. Wednesday, March 8, 1950, in Uniontown Hospital following an extended illness. - Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Mary Brain; one daughter, Miss Mary Brain, New York; three sons, Andrew, George and John Brain, all of Uniontown; one brother, Thomas Brain, California, Pa., and 10 grandchildren. One son, Dr. Joseph B. Brain, preceded him in death on March 19, 1949. - Friends being received in the home.

The mother died December 5, 1969, at which time Mary M. was still living in New York.

According to the Social Security Death Index, Mary M. Brain, born January 26, 1907, died December 22, 1993. Her last residence was Uniontown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.

Mary Mildred Brain is buried at the Saint Mary's Nativity Roman Catholic Cemetery, Uniontown, Fayette County, where her parents and other relatives are also interred.

Barbara "Nancy" Brain, the daughter of Mary Mildred Brain's brother, Andrew D. Brain, graduated in the St. Francis Hospital School of Nursing Class of 1956-J.




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