People named Alice Brown

Alice H Brown of Petersburg, Petersburg City County, VA was born on December 22, 1915, and died at age 75 years old on September 23, 1991. Alice Brown was buried at City Point National Cemetery Section B Site 4447 10th Avenue And Davis Street, in Hopewell.

Alice W Brown of Conyers, Rockdale County, GA was born on July 16, 1927, and died at age 80 years old on February 6, 2008. Alice Brown was buried at Georgia National Cemetery Section 7C Site 532 2025 Mount Carmel Church Lane, in Canton.

Alice R Brown of Baltimore, Baltimore City County, Maryland was born on February 22, 1933, and died at age 48 years old on September 1, 1981. Alice Brown was buried at Crownsville Veterans Cemetery Section 2F1 Row 7 Site 2 1122 Sunrise Beach Road, in Crownsville.

Alice R Brown of Hershey, Dauphin County, PA was born on April 23, 1935, and died at age 68 years old on January 3, 2004. Alice Brown was buried at Indiantown Gap National Cemetery Section 38-B Site 121 Rr2, Box 484 - Indiantown Gap Road, in Annville.

Alice J Brown of Bellaire, Harris County, TX was born on April 25, 1953, and died at age 42 years old on July 19, 1995.

Alice Brown of Long Beach, Nassau County, NY was born on August 12, 1917, and died at age 74 years old on July 14, 1992. Alice Brown was buried at Calverton National Cemetery Section 5A Site 431 210 Princeton Boulevard - Rt 25, in Calverton.

Alice Brown of Queensbury, Warren County, NY was born on September 26, 1929, and died at age 76 years old on September 2, 2006. Alice Brown was buried at Long Island National Cemetery Section X Site 2957 2040 Wellwood Avenue, in Farmingdale.

Alice Alice (Bullen) Brown of Steiglitz Australia. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Alice Bullen Brown.

Alice Alice (Chant) Brown of Linton Australia. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Alice Chant Brown.

Alice Elizabeth (Brown) Hovey was born in 1888. She was married to John Hovey, and had a child Esther Violet (Hovey) Westbrook. Alice Hovey died at age 78 years old in 1966 at Southport Queensland, Australia in Southport, City of Gold Coast County, QLD Australia. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Alice Elizabeth (Brown) Hovey.

Alice Massia (Chambers) Brown was born in 1907, and died at age 53 years old in 1960. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Alice Massia (Chambers) Brown.

Circus Aerialist. Alice Clark Brown, Black Star in a White Circus, Dies at 68 At a time when Ringling Brothers had few Black performers, she dazzled with aerial ballet and balanced on galloping elephants. Alice Clark Brown in the 1970s with Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. She took pride in her ability to balance on elephants and never hold on, as they did headstands. By Neil Genzlinger July 23, 2021 As a young girl in Chicago in the late 1950s, Alice Clark Brown was entranced by a television show called “Circus Boy,” especially the opening montage, in which a character named Corky rides a baby elephant. “I used to really admire him riding that elephant,” she said years later. Fast-forward a few years. The child actor on the elephant, billed at the time as Mickey Braddock, became Micky Dolenz, one of the Monkees. And Ms. Brown became an elephant rider herself, with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. She is thought to be the first Black showgirl in one of the Ringling Brothers’ two touring companies. Her riding feat, on a full-grown beast, was considerably more daring than Mr. Dolenz’s casual stroll. For one thing, the elephants were not strolling, as she described them in an oral history recorded at a 2017 reunion of circus performers. “The number was called ‘The Cakewalk Jamboree,’ and the elephants would come galloping out,” she said, adding, “Then they would stand on their hind legs, so you were on the elephants, and you were way up high.” And then the elephants would pivot earthward into a headstand, the rider rocketing forward with her animal. In other circuses, a rider might grab the harness to maintain balance, but not in the Ringling arena. Photographs from the time show Ms. Brown triumphantly astride her headstanding elephant, arms raised high, her elaborate headdress perfectly in place. “I had to learn how to let centrifugal force work with that so that I could stay on and never hold on, never never,” she said. Ms. Brown dazzled audiences with her aerial ballet act, but before she could perform, she had to train to get over her fear of heights. The effect was striking. “It looks like I’m defying gravity,” she said. Ms. Brown died on June 6 at her home in Oak Park, Ill. She was 68. Her husband, Geoffrey F. Brown, said the cause was interstitial lung disease. Ms. Brown was with the circus only from 1971 to 1974, but she was celebrated both for her arena acrobatics — she danced high above the ground in aerial ballets — and for breaking a barrier. “I think the circus is fun and I’m glad to be here, not only for myself but for Blacks in general,” she told The Daily News of Philadelphia in 1972. “It is important that they be represented in every aspect of American life.” Alice Ruth Clark was born on Aug. 22, 1952, in Chicago. Her father, Charles, worked at Libby, McNeill & Libby, the canned-goods company, and her mother, Mattie (Miller) Clark, was a homemaker. She graduated from DuSable High School in Chicago in 1969 and was a student at the University of Illinois when, in 1971, the circus came to the International Amphitheater in Chicago. She was working there as an usher, and the interest she had developed watching “Circus Boy” was reignited. Over time Ms. Brown became something of a public face for the circus, doing interviews with newspapers and with Barbara Walters on the “Today” show. Ms. Brown tried out, and in December 1971 she joined the circus, leaving college behind for the moment. She was sent to the circus’s training ground in Florida, where Antoinette Concello (I also gave her a tribute on ancientfaces several years ago), a famed performer who was then aerial director for the circus, helped her improve her dancing and overcome her fear of heights. “Mrs. Concello said, ‘Now if you don’t learn these tricks, girl, we’re going to have to send you home,’” she said in the oral history. “I was like, ‘Oh, no, I can’t let that happen.’ I started practicing extra hard until finally, I finally did the tricks along with all the other girls, way up high.” She began performing in shows in 1972. She also became something of a public face for the circus, doing interviews with newspapers and with Barbara Walters on the “Today” show. Ms. Brown was a rare Black star in the Ringling arena at the time. In the 19th century, P.T. Barnum had used Black performers odiously, exhibiting them freak-show style; almost a century later, few had been elevated to star status. At the time Ms. Brown joined, the circus had two different troupes touring, the Red Unit and the Blue. The Red Unit had a Black showgirl, Jackie Walker, but Ms. Brown is believed to have been the first Black showgirl to be hired in the Blue group, Heidi Connor, chief archivist at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Fla., told The Chicago Sun-Times. “When I first joined, it was kind of funny,” Ms. Brown told The Daily News of Philadelphia seven months into the job. “Some people acted like they didn’t like Black people. Now everybody has gotten used to me, and things are much better.” Some of Ms. Brown’s fondest memories of her circus days were exploring cities where the show stopped, including New York, Detroit, Baltimore and Houston. Some of Ms. Brown’s fondest memories of her circus days were exploring cities where the show stopped, including New York, Detroit, Baltimore and Houston.Credit...via Brown family Touring the South, she occasionally experienced the kinds of discrimination familiar to earlier generations of Black performers. “I noticed those confederate flags and the John Birch Society signs,” she said in the oral history. “I thought, ‘Careful, be very careful.’ Sure enough, there were places there in the South, a couple of places, that wouldn’t serve me.” Most of her memories, though, were pleasant, she said. She especially enjoyed her time on the circus train and exploring cities where the show stopped. Her younger sister, Anna Clark, joined her in New York, Detroit, Baltimore, Houston and elsewhere, and they would travel around town together. “She would say, ‘Hey, this is an interesting looking place; why don’t you come see me?’” Ms. Clark said in a phone interview. “I took my first plane ride because of her.” “The world was our oyster,” she added. “We were trying to find out how many pearls we could locate.” Ms. Brown left the circus after the 1974 season, thinking she might travel to Europe and sign on with a small circus there. But when her mother had a stroke, that plan fell by the wayside. Soon after, while working as a tour guide at Johnson Publishing in Chicago, she met Mr. Brown, who was on the staff of its Jet magazine. They married in 1977. (Mr. Brown became a top editor at The Chicago Tribune.) While raising a family, Ms. Brown dabbled in other types of performing in the Chicago area, appearing in plays, playing piano and singing and appearing as an extra in a few movies. Ms. Brown in 2017 at a reunion of Ringling Brothers alumni. With her are the former clowns Steve Smith, left, and Chris Bricker.Credit...Geoffrey F. Brown Sr. Mr. Brown said that when his wife would talk about her circus years, “she was quite proud of how strong she had become.” “She was always, ‘I got so nice and muscular,’” he said in a phone interview. He said she was dismayed at the animal-rights protest that cast the circus in a bad light in later years, since she had never witnessed any mistreatment. Some three decades after she had interrupted her collegiate studies, she returned to school, earning an English degree at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2004. In addition to her husband and her sister, Ms. Brown is survived by a son, Geoffrey Jr.; a daughter, Christina L. Brown; and a brother, Gerry Clark. Anna Clark said that, more than once, Ms. Concello, the aerial director, had asked if she wanted to join Alice in the circus. They could work up a sister act, she suggested. But she knew she was no Alice. “I had to remind her that I get a nosebleed from getting up on a stepladder,” she said. “I just wasn’t that brave. I wasn’t as brave as her.”

Alice Kathleen (Mallet) Brown was born in 1859 at Buninyong, Vic to Thomas Britten Mallet and Emma Hulance Davis Mallet, and had siblings Thomas Norman Mallet, Guy Hullance Mallet, and Maud Isabel Mallet. Alice Brown died at age 40 years old in 1899 at Singleton, NSW. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Alice Kathleen (Mallet) Brown.

Alice G Brown of Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, FL was born on December 12, 1915, and died at age 89 years old on January 25, 2005. Alice Brown was buried at Florida National Cemetery Section MJ Site 112 6502 Sw. 102nd Ave., in Bushnell.

Alice D Brown of Joshua Tree, San Bernardino County, CA was born on August 6, 1927, and died at age 76 years old on April 17, 2004. Alice Brown was buried at Riverside National Cemetery Section 12C Site 262 22495 Van Buren Boulevard, in Riverside.

Alice F Brown of Darien, Du Page County, IL was born on May 4, 1925, and died at age 80 years old on November 29, 2005. Alice Brown was buried at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery Section C3-49 Row C Site 9 20953 West Hoff Road, in Elwood.

Alice M Brown of Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA was born on April 19, 1907, and died at age 81 years old on December 10, 1988. Alice Brown was buried at Baltimore National Cemetery Section N Site 3082 5501 Frederick Avenue, in Baltimore, Md.

Alice E Brown of New York, New York County, NY was born on March 13, 1922, and died at age 70 years old on February 26, 1993. Alice Brown was buried at Calverton National Cemetery Section 1 Site 2602 210 Princeton Boulevard - Rt 25, in Calverton.

Alice Louise Brown of Sandy, Clackamas County, OR was born on February 5, 1921, and died at age 87 years old on April 14, 2008. Alice Brown was buried at Willamette National Cemetery Section CC Site 1203 11800 Se Mt. Scott Boulevard, in Portland.

Alice E Brown of Woodbridge, Prince William County, VA was born on April 8, 1930, and died at age 61 years old on March 31, 1992. Alice Brown was buried at Quantico National Cemetery Section 8 Site 881 18424 Joplin Road (route 619), in Triangle.

Alice Delane Brown was married to Forrest Estel Brown, and has a child Steven Scott Brown. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Alice "Tillie" Delane Brown.

Alice Brown of Sandhurst Australia was born in 1879 in Sandhurst. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Alice Brown.

Alice Brown of Steiglitz Australia was born in 1876 in Steiglitz. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Alice Brown.

Alice M Brown was born on March 20, 1933, and died at age 79 years old on September 12, 2012. Alice Brown was buried at Bg William C Doyle Vet's Mem Cem Section R3 Site 8022 350 Provinceline Road, in Wrightstown, Nj. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Alice M Brown.

Alice Lorraine Brown was born on August 26, 1923, and died at age 76 years old on October 6, 1999. Alice Brown was buried at Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery Section A1 Row D Site 12 1900 Buchanan Blvd., in Boulder City, Nv. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Alice Lorraine Brown.

Alice Brown was born on December 15, 1923, and died at age 82 years old on December 15, 2005. Alice Brown was buried at Calverton National Cemetery Section 5 Site 1885 210 Princeton Boulevard - Rt 25, in Calverton, Ny. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Alice Brown.

Alice Mayer Brown was born on November 19, 1903, and died at age 57 years old on July 13, 1961. Alice Brown was buried at Ft. Rosecrans National Cemetery Section V Site 1721 P.o. Box 6237, in San Diego, Ca. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Alice Mayer Brown.

Alice P Brown was born on March 14, 1919, and died at age 70 years old on March 3, 1990. Alice Brown was buried at Memphis National Cemetery Section MM Site 416 3568 Townes Avenue, in Memphis, Tn. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Alice P Brown.

Alice J Brown was born on April 12, 1902, and died at age 79 years old on March 24, 1982. Alice Brown was buried at Raleigh National Cemetery Section 25 Site 113 501 Rock Quarry Road, in Raleigh, Nc. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Alice J Brown.