by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB
Roanoke Times Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc. DATE: SUNDAY, April 4, 1993 TAG: 9304050108 SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: D-2 EDITION: METRO SOURCE: DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
OBIT FRAIM, CECILE BROWN
FRAIM, Cecile Brown, 91, of Roanoke, died Saturday, April 3, 1993. She was born July 29, 1901, in Dry Ridge, Ky., a daughter of the late John Franklin and Mathilda Riley Brown. She grew up in rural Kentucky, attended a one-room schoolhouse, and later moved to Walton, Ky., where she and her sister were the sole operators of the local telephone exchange. In 1925, she married Chester John Fraim of Waltham, Mass.; and in 1938, they moved to Virginia. Mrs. Fraim was an active participant in church and community activities, and was an energetic and talented homemaker. She enjoyed exhibiting hybrid irises and her award-winning fine needlework in local shows. She was a member of Airlee Court Baptist Church, the Order of the Eastern Star Chapter No. 119, the Williamson Road Social Service Club and the Dig and Dream Garden Club. She always retained a fondness for the things of her girlhood; and she spent many happy hours riding, hunting, fishing and gardening during the years that she and Mr. Fraim had their farm in Botetourt County. She will be remembered by her family as being quick witted, fun loving and resourceful, a perfect childhood companion and an ever-loyal adult friend. She was preceded in death by her husband and by her son and daughter-in-law, John D. and Fannie S. Fraim. She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Betty F. and W. Douglas Kidd, Roanoke; her grandchildren, Robert D. and Cheryl K. Fraim of Ibarra, Ecuador, John L. Fraim, Laurie F. and Samuel T. Stevens, Karen L. Haynie, Victor R. Layman Jr., Chet E. and Imelda Layman, all of Roanoke; and seven great-grandchildren, Jonathan, Hannah and Micah Fraim, Jesse and Alyson Haynie, and Elizabeth and Victoria Layman. The family will receive friends on Monday from 4 to 8 p.m. at Oakey's North Chapel. The entombment memorial service in Sherwood Memorial Park will be private.