Beverly Brown (BSMT ’72), of Alameda, CA, died March 16, 2009 after suffering a brain aneurysm that had struck suddenly on Nov. 2, 2008.

A native of Grand Forks, she became licensed by the American Society of Clinical Pathologists and in California as a clinical laboratory scientist in 1976. She was a highly regarded and valued employee of Kaiser Permanente for 33 years; she worked at Kaiser San Francisco, Kaiser Regional Laboratory in Berkeley and, most recently, with Kaiser’s Northern California Laboratory Information System.