Not to be confused with Violet Brown and Eula Viola Brown-Polk.
Viola Brown | |
Birth: | 4 October 1911 Fauquier County, Virginia, USA |
Death: | 21 May 2022 Berryville, Virginia, USA |
Age: | 110 years, 229 days |
Country: | USA |
Validated |
Viola Brown (née Roberts; 4 October 1911 – 21 May 2022) was an American supercentenarian whose age was validated by Gerontology Research Group (GRG) in 2023. At the time of her death, she was the oldest known living person in Virginia.
Biography[]
Viola Brown was born in Fauquier County, Virginia, USA. She was one of the 13 children of James Roberts and Maria Hosby Roberts. When she was 7, Brown and her parents moved to Clarke County to work at Springfield Farm. It was there that she began a life of cleaning, cooking and caring for others. For 30 years, Brown worked for families who lived at the Knoll, a home on South Church Street in Berryville, before returning to work at Springfield Farm in the early 1960s while still care-taking at the Knoll.
She married John Lampkin on 28 December 1936. They built a house on Josephine Street together. Its main two-story structure originally was part of a livery stable on Main Street that Lampkin moved about seven blocks. Lampkin died in 1982. Six years later, Brown married the Rev. Paul Brown, who was the pastor of Zion Baptist Church on Josephine Street before he died in 1998.
Brown had eight grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren, and three great-great-grandchildren.
She died of natural causes in Berryville, Fauquier County, Virginia, USA, on 21 May 2022 at the age of 110 years, 229 days.