Jae Ann Brown
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Jae Ann Brown, wife of Andor P-Jobb, who survives, of Emlenton Pennsylvania, died June 21, 2025.
Mrs. Brown was predeceased in death by her parents Grace Viola Hirschfield and Jay Austin Brown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Along with her husband Andor P-Jobb, Mrs. Brown is survived by her two daughters, Donna Aristea Brown (Ray Macucci), and Kalliope Viola Levendos, all of Pittsburgh.
She is also survived by her Granddaughter Tallulah jae Ifrah (Lior) and great grandchildren Abigail, Gabriel and Benjamin all residing in Fort Lauderdale Florida.
Also surviving is her grandson Simon Armand John Lusky (Angelica) and great grandchildren Salvador and Carmen, Jack, all of St. Louis Missouri.
Surviving are beloved cousins Giovanna and Steve Jobb of Kentucky; nephew Peter Moskos and his partner Geoff.
Hard to leave behind is our ‘family” and our community’s premier cultural resource for the arts — Allegheny RiverStone Center for the arts (ARCA), which from the very beginning provided beauty and cultural purpose.
Hardest to lose is our ‘chosen’ son and protector - PAUL DUDA, of Cleveland. Ohio. His kindness from the moment that we, providentially, met two decades ago has been unsurpassed, has have been his senses of creativity. We have come to cherish his wife, Mok’s, joyousness and sweet sense of hilariousness.
Claimed by a tragic and untimely death, Mrs. Brown’s beloved ‘gift’ grandson, Béla Jobb of Strattanville, Pennsylvania, (Grandson of Dr. Jobb) died in an automobile accident two days before his twenty first birthday. May his memory be eternal.
Although newcomers to Emlenton - having resided there for only 26 years, Mrs. Brown and Dr. Jobb over this time gained several new friends and acquaintances, enough so that when they became increasingly ill within the past year there were friends and neighbors who showed interest in helping us.
These past months Mrs. Brown and Dr. Jobb were overwhelmingly blessed to have secured the prayers and good wishes of many in the community.
We wish for them to know that Mrs. Brown and Dr. Jobb could intensely feel the presence of the community’s prayers that transformed their daily life and lessen the burden of their sicknesses. The extraordinary kindness of the community overwhelmed them both.
The time that, Mrs. Brown and Dr. Jobb spent in Emlenton was the happiest time of their respective lives, they intensely enjoyed the ‘labor of love’ that was their transformation of the historical Koos building where they worked side-by-side creating beauty — together!
They also created together the book, “The Judo Greats” where they combined the fine arts with the martial arts. jae’s involvement with the International Judo Federation’s Veterans Judo Championship, helped her husband obtain the honor of being inducted into the International Judo Federation Hall of Fame.
Mrs. Brown is the author of the book, “Artists Among Us”, created from articles that she wrote for The Progress News.
Mrs. Brown was a career woman and was fortunate enough to divide her life into two separate and very dissimilar careers.
She spent 20+ years at the pre UPMC Shadyside Hospital in Pittsburgh, where she was the director of volunteer services, the founder of the wellness program that continues to this day, now under the purview of UPMC Shadyside.
Mrs. Brown designed the first volunteer program in the world to utilize the contribution of blind volunteers through the school for blind children in Pittsburgh.
Along with a premed student from the University of Pittsburgh, now UPMC, Adriana Selvaggio, MD, Mrs. Brown co-founded the ‘Medex’ program that introduced final semester fourth year premed students, who had already been accepted into prestigious medical schools, to perform as ‘shadow; volunteers in an innovative program where these stringently selected students worked with the Shadyside hospital medical staff.
In 1948 Mrs. Brown made a complete change in careers when Mrs. Brown married John S. Levendos - president and founder of Levendos International Sales, a domestic and International sales-corporation (DISC) that specialized in the export of USA-manufactured shooting supplies and ordnance.
Mrs. Brown found the export business to be extremely challenging and was able to use her imagination to help grow the company her husband had sounded by establishing LISC as the exclusive exporters for such legendary and glamorous, domestic products as: Freedom Arms Casull; Detonics and RPM.
Mrs. Brown did not wish a funeral, and burial will be private at the historic Allegheny Cemetery located in Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania.
Hile Funeral Home, Emlenton, is in charge of the arrangements.