Neda (Bruich) Brown

February 11, 1926 to June 17, 2021

Long-time Bay Area nurse, Neda Brown, died in her home in Moraga of natural causes. She grew up in Kinney, Minnesota, at the time, a mining center in the iron ore range with around 300 residents. Her father and mother emigrated from Serbia.

Her father died when she was four, and her family survived during the Great Depression with the help of neighbors and relatives and by producing much of their own food.

After high school Necla worked her way through the School of Nursing at The College of St. Scholastica. Equipped with her nursing degree in 1949, she with a couple of fellow graduates decided to go to California where she settled in Oakland and worked as an RN in several East Bay hospitals. Neda eventually moved to San Francisco and worked at the Franklin, Stanford and Pacific hospitals. She later took a job with the U.S. Government Health Service at the federal building.

She met her husband Lawrence at a party in the East Bay and married in Mendocino in June of 1986. The couple lived in Moraga at the County Club where she enjoyed playing tennis. She attended operas with friends and with Lawrence loved musical theater productions and tours in the U.S. and Europe.

She is predeceased by her brothers George and Sweto and sister Helen. She is survived by her husband Lawrence, a niece Lisa Fletcher and nephew Scott Fletcher of Minnesota and several California in-law brothers, sisters, nephews and nieces.

Services will be private. The family asks that any memorial contributions in her name be made to the School of Nursing, The College of St. Scholastica, 1200 Kenwood Ave., Duluth, MN 55811.