Mary Walker Brown, 84, of Philadelphia, a Baptist and Methodist choir director, died Saturday, Feb. 18, after a stroke at the Vitas Hospice of Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital.
Born in Louisville, Ga., Mrs. Brown graduated from William Penn High School in 1946 and earned a degree in music education at what is now West Chester University in 1950.
Mrs. Brown's daughter, Donna Brown Ginyard, said she was a music teacher at the Gay Street Elementary School in West Chester from 1950 to 1952 before teaching at Thomas M. Peirce Elementary School in Philadelphia from 1952 to 1961.
A lyric soprano, Mrs. Brown directed the choir at Holy Trinity Baptist Church on Bainbridge Street near 18th Street from 1950 to 1969 and at Sayers Memorial United Methodist Church near 61st and Catharine Streets from 1969 to 1987, when she retired.
