Frances Brumback always looked beautiful.
When she and her daughter, Carol, would go out together, they would often be mistaken for sisters.
“But she never would correct anyone,” said Carol Brumback. “She didn’t want anyone to feel bad. That’s just the way she was.”
Frances Brumback, a longtime resident of Monroeville and one of the oldest living World War II veterans, died Nov. 16. She was 99.
Carol, a 70-year-old Gateway graduate, stayed by her mother until the very end. Around five years ago, she commuted from her home in Maryland as often as three times a week to take care of her mother. The two have always been close, she said.