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About
Mary Ann Brown |
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Mary Ann Brown
on the local news,
channel 4, promoting
Anthony, NM/TX
and Leap Year Day. |
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| Born February 29, 1932 she is a Leap Year Day Baby on
a mission. In just about
every article regarding the Leap Year Capital of the
World, and the Worldwide
Leap Year Birthday Club, you'll see Mary Ann Brown's
name. That's because
she founded the birthday club and the Worldwide Leap year Festival with
two
things in mind: to promote her community and to bring deserved recognition
to
Leap Year Day. After all, that extra day, added to our calendars just once
every
four years, keeps our seasons regulated and... NASA even considers its
impact
in making their calculations for space exploration. |
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| On February 1, 1988 Mary Ann proposed that the
Anthony Chamber of
Commerce host a festival centered around Leap
Year Day to bring recognition
and needed funds to the community she has lived in and loved for many
years.
Not knowing exactly what they were getting into, the Anthony Chamber agreed
and has been sponsoring the Worldwide Leap
Year Festival ever since 1988. |
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Mary Ann continues her efforts to bring awareness to Leap Year Day
and to
bring fun and dollars to her community. It is very important to her that
this
"little town in two states" benefit from the visitors who come
from all over the
world and that the visitors have a great time as well. She is a member of
and
a volunteer for the Anthony Chamber of Commerce
and is very much involved
in planning the festivities. She'll be the first to tell you that there are many people
hard at work to make this event happen, and to make sure
their community is
represented in a positive way. |
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Biography
Mary Ann and her two sisters were born in nearby Las Cruces, New
Mexico.
She has lived in Las Cruces and Anthony, New Mexico/Texas all of her life
except for 5 years, beginning in 1944 during WW II, when the family moved
to Burbank, California where her Dad and her brother operated a riding and
boarding stable for five years. The stable and their home was located
directly
across Riverside Drive from the famous Griffith park (Los Angeles'
equivalent
to New York's Central park.) The family moved back to Las Cruces in 1949
where Mary Ann graduated from high school and met the love of her life. In
1951 she married that Anthony business man, Joe Bob Brown, and moved to
Anthony, Texas where she has lived for more than fifty two years. Mary Ann
was widowed in 1992. She is the mother of five children, 3 boys and 2
girls,
and grandmother of ten. Mary Ann is a steadfast member of the Church of
Christ.
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