Mieko Kosuge Brown
Mieko Kosuge Brown, age 79, of Oak Ridge, passed away Friday, Oct. 5, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.
She was born March 31, 1933, in Mito City, Japan, to Gisubro and Kiko Kosuge, both now deceased.
She was the third child of seven children, and she was a member of Calvary Baptist Church. She was a chemical operator at Y-12, retiring in 2010 at the age of 77, and she received an award for 35 years of service without a sick day. She was a member of the Japanese Dance Club of Oak Ridge. She loved to knit and sew and was a fashion designer, designing and making most of her clothes.
She loved to read, especially Japanese books and loved traveling. In the 1950s, she went to visit here grandmother in Sendai, and met a GI, Ulys Grant. She fell in love and married despite her fathers objections. They had met at a Christian Bible study, and Mieko became a Christian.
She came to America in 1954 and began a family. She had to learn English at night school and had to raise three boys by herself when Ulys became disabled.
