Lillian Brown
Mary Lillian Josephine Brown (née Brooks; August 8, 1914September 13, 2020) was an American radio and television producer, university administrator and instructor, author, makeup artist and image consultant. She provided makeup and image services to nine Presidents of the United States from Dwight Eisenhower to Bill Clinton, and to Martin Luther King Jr. Early years Brooks was born in 1914 on a farm near Huntsville, Ohio. Her father was a farmer and her mother a schoolteacher. After receiving a two-year teaching degree from Bowling Green State College in 1933, she taught first, second and third graders at the same school as her mother. She did graduate work at Ohio State University and worked at a department store in Cleveland. She married George Brown, a Navy pilot, in 1941. They had three children, Carla, Kristi, and Kimi. Professional career Television career In 1952, Brown and her husband settled in Washington, D.C. They attended the same church as President Dwight Eisenhower. In 1953, she developed an educational television series about presidents and their churches. She later developed a second program on the mansions of Virginia. She also hosted an educational program, Do You Wonder? For her work in television she was given