Obituaries

Mrs. Brown was born in Fort Worth. She was about 15 when she and her family moved to the Washington area. She graduated from Bishop O'Connell High School in Arlington and Creighton University in Omaha with a bachelor's degree in nursing. In the late 1980s, she received a master's degree in business administration from Marymount University.

As a volunteer, she sewed costumes and helped design sets for the Pied Piper Theatre in Prince William County. She was also an active supporter of the Woodbridge Senior High School's Madrigal Singers and chorus.

Her marriage to Kenneth E. Brown ended in divorce.

Survivors include two daughters, Kate Collins Brown and Lauren Julia Brown, both of Woodbridge; her mother, Norma O'Grady of Falls Church; four sisters, Cheryl Czapp of Annandale, Patricia Ruffin of San Antonio, Terry Johnson of Springfield and Timotha Rainey of Leesburg; and a brother, Michael O'Grady of Vienna.

Mintie Eberhart GlassArt Teacher

Mintie Eberhart Glass, 79, who taught art in Montgomery County high schools, died Dec. 31 at Suburban Hospital after a stroke. She lived in Bethesda.

Mrs. Glass moved to Bethesda in 1959. She began teaching art at Robert E. Peary High School in Rockville in 1960, the year the school opened. At Peary, she served as department chair and sponsored the Class of 1966. She remained at Peary until the school closed in 1984 and then taught at Wheaton High School for a year before retiring in 1985.

Her husband, Park Glass Jr., was a teacher and football coach in Montgomery County.

Mrs. Glass was born in Elizabeth, Pa. When she was 9, she was severely injured when she was struck by a car. She was in a coma for six weeks and had to relearn to walk and talk.

She graduated from Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pa., in 1947, where she was a member of Chi Omega sorority. She studied art, piano and voice as a young woman and performed as a mezzo-soprano soloist with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

She received a master's degree in education from Western Maryland College (now McDaniel College) in the late 1960s. Before moving to the Washington area, she taught in junior high and high schools in Pennsylvania.

In retirement, Mrs. Glass enjoyed traveling, attending the opera, reading, supporting the arts and working crossword puzzles. She was a volunteer at the Navy chapel at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, where she chaired the fellowship committee.

Survivors include her husband of 57 years, of Bethesda; three children, J. Robert Glass of Gaithersburg, Cynthia Glass Moses of Damascus and Sue Ellen Zellman of Long Valley, N.J.; and two grandchildren.