HERMON – A former Bangor Daily News award-winning reporter, C. Jeane (Brown) Hall, died Wednesday at her home in Hermon.
Hall, who won third prize in a national journalism contest in the mid-1960s, was a 1962 alumna of Barrington College in Barrington, R.I.
She joined the Bangor Daily News features and women’s news desk in August 1964 and wrote under the name of Jeane Christiansen.
The award was based on a four-part series on mobile home living in Maine. The series appeared in the Bangor Daily News in April and May 1965.
Hall was a member of the First Baptist Church of Bangor, an active sports enthusiast with a talent for golf and skiing.
She was a frequent volunteer at the Dorothy Day Soup Kitchen in Bangor.
Hall was 60.
Surviving Hall is her husband Col. Robert R. Hall of Hermon; a brother, Malcolm E. Brown, and his wife, Claire, of Salem, N.H.; two sisters, Beryl E. Smith, and her husband, the Rev. Carl R. Smith, both of Perry, and Beulah M. Ayer and her husband, Richard T. Ayer, both of Norway.
She also is survived by several nieces and nephews
A brother, Carl E. Brown, predeceased her.
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Nov. 17, at Brookings-Smith, 133 Center St., Bangor.
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