Sister Mary Anne Brown

[ Age 87 ] Business school principal

Sister Mary Anne Brown, who had been principal of a Patterson Park business school during a lengthy teaching career, died of cardiovascular disease Monday at her order's Aston, Pa. retirement home. She was 87.

Born Mary Anne Brown in Wilmington, Del., she entered the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia in 1939 and received the name Sister Mary Liguori. She later used her baptismal name.

Sister Mary Anne earned a bachelor's degree in English from Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg and had a master's degree from Catholic University of America.

She taught at the Shrine of the Little Flower Parochial School in Belair-Edison from 1941 to 1953 and from 1977 to 1982. She also taught at St. Katharine School in East Baltimore and at Towson's Immaculate Conception School from 1958 to 1971. She was the principal and a teacher at St. Elizabeth of Hungary Business School in Patterson Park until 1986 and for another two decades she worked in her order's congregational offices. She retired in 2006.

A Mass was offered yesterday at Assisi House in Aston.

Survivors include nieces and nephews.