Mary R. "Jenia" Brown, a homemaker and avid tennis player, died Monday at her Roland Park home after being struck by a falling tree limb. She was 66.
Mrs. Brown had returned to her Falls Road Terrace home after playing tennis when she was struck by the tree limb, said her husband of 45 years, W. Taylor Brown, a retired Baltimore lawyer, who said the incident was not related to last Sunday's storm.
Mrs. Brown, who died at the scene while paramedics were treating her, was later taken to Sinai Hospital, her husband said.
Mary Royster was born in Baltimore and raised in a home at Lake and Roland avenues. She was a 1961 graduate of Bryn Mawr School and earned a degree in 1965 in political science from Chatham College in Pittsburgh.
She had worked as a city social worker from 1965 to 1970. During the 1980s and 1990s, she worked in real estate sales for Chase Fitzgerald in Roland Park.
More recently, she had worked as a medical secretary and part time at the Roland Park Bakery & Deli on Roland Avenue.
In addition to playing tennis, Mrs. Brown, who was a member of the Bolton Hill Swim & Tennis Club, was an accomplished skier and an active member of the Baltimore Ski Club.
She and her husband also enjoyed sailing on the Chesapeake Bay.
Mrs. Brown's charitable interests included Planned Parenthood of Maryland.
Mrs. Brown was a communicant of Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church, Mount Royal and Lafayette avenues, where a memorial Mass will be offered at 4 p.m. Wednesday.
In addition to her husband, Mrs. Brown is survived by two sons, Randolph R. Brown of Ellicott City and Marshall T. Brown of Riverdale, N.J.; a sister, Louise R. Brown of Pittsburgh; and five grandchildren.