Constance "Connie" Elaine (Mulvaney) Brown
Born: May 5, 1923 Jackson, Michigan
Married: (Albert Chaffee) December 25th, 1942, Fredricksburg, Virginia
Married: (John Brown) March 1st, 1980, West Palm Beach, Florida
Died: May 21, 1998, Lake Worth, Florida
Buried: Old Rugged Cross Section in Roseland Memorial Gardens Cemetary, Jackson, Michigan

First Husband:
Albert "Red" Franklin Chaffee

Children:
Richard "Rick" Franklin Chaffee
Kathleen Ann Chaffee Miller

Second Husband:
John Powell Brown

Parents:
Harold H. Mulvaney
Annabelle Mulvaney

Siblings:
Harold Francis Mulvaney

Occupation:
Porcelain Artist Lake Worth, Florida and Jackson, Michigan

Notes:
(The following notes were provided by "Aunt" Jean Chaffee Kulchinski.)

She was born May 5, 1923.

She studied porcelain (china) painting and taught classes for over twenty years in Jackson and Lake Worth, Florida. She was a member and past president of the Southern Association of Porcelain Artists. She was known for her beautiful work.

After Red's death, she married John Brown on March 1st, 1980 in West Palm Beach, Florida.

She passed away May 21st, 1998 in Florida. She is buried next to Red Chaffee in the Old Rugged Cross Section of Roseland Memorial Gardens Cemetary in Jackson, Michigan.

(Shawn Humphrey's notes)

"Nana", as I called her most of my life, was a very warm, funny woman. My favorite expression of hers was always "son of a gun". Nana said that a lot.

Apparently, my mom called her grandmother Nana. As a toddler, I took one look at Mom's grandmother and said, "No-Nana", pointed to my grandmother and proclaimed her "Nana". I was very much in charge of naming people in those days, so the nicknames stuck.

Aunt Jean tells me that both Grandma Brown and she took up porcelain art while the kids were involved in the Vietnam war. Jean introduced Connie to the concept. She told me she feels she personally never got the hang of it, although the one piece she showed me I felt was very well done.

Grandma Brown was an exceptional artist, very much the pefectionist. Mom and Jean have a number of her pieces, and I will provide a zip file of some articles and pictures of her work here.

(Other notes)

A quote found in the 1942 Jackson Reflector, the high school yearbook: "Time goes steady by and so do I." Her interest was modern dance.