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Hilma Brown Cleveland
14 Nov 1909 – 11 May 2005
| Birth | 14 Nov 1909 |
| Death | 11 May 2005 |
| Cemetery | Stratford Cemetery Stratford , Sherman County , Texas , USA |
| Added by | Bob Fleming on 21 May 2007 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19475319 |
Bio
IRVING - Hilma Brown Cleveland, 95, died Wednesday, May 11, 2005. Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday in First Baptist Church in Stratford. Arrangements are by Donnelly's Colonial Funeral Home. Mrs. Cleveland was born in Stratford on Nov. 14, 1909, to Eula Peck Brown and J.T. Brown. She was the youngest of 10 children of the early Stratford merchant and was predeceased by all of her brothers and sisters. Hilma did research and traveled to gather information on the genealogies of the Brown and Peck families and on the migration of the Brown family from North Carolina through Tennessee, Central Texas and to Stratford in 1904. Although she had many interests and experiences, Mrs. Cleveland took most pride in her work as a teacher. Upon the death of her parents in 1926 and 1927 and with only one year of college at Panhandle A&M College in Goodwell, Okla., she lived with the Wallace Steel family and taught five pupils at a one-room school out from Stratford.Later, while seeking to support her young son and with the assistance of many family members, she began a long process of acquiring more education, teaching during school terms and going to school at night and in summers.She eventually obtained her MA degree at West Texas State College in Canyon. She taught at school systems in Southwest Kansas, in Stratford and in Amarillo, notably at Alice Landergin Elementary and Paramount Terrace schools in Amarillo.She also taught in Germany in schools for Army dependent children. After retirement in 1975, Mrs. Cleveland moved to Sun City, Ariz., to live and travel with her sister, Helen. They later moved to Longview and, later, Irving. Survivors include a son, Joe Cleveland and wife, Shirley, of Irving; a granddaughter, Sidney Stallings, her husband, Heath, and their son, Slade, of Grapevine; and four nieces, Marlene Morris of Amarillo, Patty Watkins of Longview and Maureen Plunk and Katie Allen, both of Stratford. Amarillo Globe-News, May 13, 2005
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- Colela Elizabeth "Lela" Brown Fowler 1884–1935
- James Alexander Brown 1886–1971
- Nannie Annie Brown Collins 1887–1976
- Lula Mae Brown Reeder 1889–1976
- Willie E. Brown Hester 1891–1937
- Ruby Brown 1893–1893
- Joe Brown 1894–1965
- Harry Lee Brown 1899–1986
- Helen Brown Mason 1904–2004
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