Anna Enright Browne

BROWNE, ENRIGHT, DARCEY, AZZARA, LINTNER, DAVITT

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 8/5/2006 at 18:46:24

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
July 29, 1942

MRS. ANNA BROWNE, Norton,Kansas

Former Resident Drowns In Nebraska. Mrs. Anna Browne Was Sister of Thomas Enright of Prole

Thomas Enright of Crawford township has received word that his sister, Mrs. Anna E. Browne of Norton, Kan., was drowned in the Republican river near Republican City, Neb., on Sunday of last week.

Mrs. Browne was 62 years of age and was a socially prominent Norton business woman. She was spending the night with friends at a cabin on the banks of The Republican river. Because of the heat she slept on a cot outside, between the cabin and the bank of the river. It is thought that during the night she started to return to the cabin, but became confused in the darkness and walked off the bank into the river instead. Her body was recovered the next evening.

Mrs. Browne was the former Anna Enright. She was born March 10, 1880, at Watertown, Wis., the daughter of Cornelius and Mary Ellen Darcey Enright. She was reared in the Churchville community and taught school in both Madison and Warren counties. She was married Jan. 8, 1907, to Michael Francis Browne, a pioneer contractor and merchant in Norton, Kan.

She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Victorine Azzara and Mrs. Frances Lintner; five grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Frances Davitt of Cumming; and three brothers, Cornelius Enright of Los Angeles, Thomas Enright of Prole, and James Enright of Rosiland, Alberta, Canada. Her husband died in 1933.

Several family members left from here to attend the services in Norton, Kansas.

Business houses throughout the city of Norton were closed for one hour last Thurday during her funeral services, which were conducted from St. Francis church there.