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Bess Brown: 99 years with a smile

By Griffin Hughes Colorado through Tulsa, Oklahoma via Texas. In 99 years, she’s traveled all over the world and back, whether by freighter, cruise or plane. Now Bess Brown enjoys a quiet life at Kavod Senior Living, where she’s been for the last eight years. Even Brown herself has only one word to describe her life: “blessed.” From the beginning, Bess Brown had a love of family and of travel. She and her husband moved from Texas to Oklahoma for her husband’s job. She didn’t land in Colorado until 1964 when her husband took another job in the Rocky Mountain state. It was here that they fell in love with Colorado and decided to make it their permanent home. Her husband even retired early in […]
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