RIP, Gena R. Brown
The MCC community extends its condolences to the family of Gena R. Brown, a 2005 graduate of our medical sonography program who died in a tragic house fire in Lexington over the weekend.
Authorities are crediting Brown with saving her two daughters from a dryer fire that touched off a larger fire inside their home.
Brown, 48, yelled for her daughters to get out as the fire tore through the house on Paul Revere Road in the early morning hours. Her two daughters climbed out a second floor window and yelled for neighbors to call 911, but Brown herself was unable to escape. Authorities believe the fire was the result of lint buildup in a clothes dryer.
Brown had worked as a sonographer, or ultrasound technician, at Newton-Wellesley Hospital since January. She had earned her license as a diagnostic medical sonographer at MCC in 2005.
A memorial service in Gena’s honor will be held Friday, Sept. 19, at 11 a.m. at Grace Chapel, 59 Worthen Rd., Lexington, with arrangements by Bedrosian Funeral Home. Donations in Brown’s memory may be made to the Gena R. Brown Children’s Education Fund, c/o Belmont Savings Bank, 2 Leonard St., Belmont, MA 02478. Proceeds will go toward financing the education of her three children.
