Remember Robin Browne, seven-year-old Swan Brooner's mother, the stage mom to top all stage moms? Intense, creepy, chain-smoking, obviously pained? If you saw the documentary, you remember her.
Well, she passed away back in February of an apparent heart attack at the age of 44. Worse, Internet sources report that there is now a custody battle underway between Robin's sister and Swan's absentee father for her two children -- Swan, now 9, and Devon, 7.
Donations on Swan and brother Devon's behalf may be sent to:
Jackson County Department of Social Services
538 Scotts Creek Road, Suite 200
Sylva, N.C. 28779.
Designate on the checks that the money is for the Brooner children and send donations to the attention of Mary Derks or Jolene Fox.
Jebus. As if this kid wasn't messed up enough having her as a mother, she's infinitely worse off without one at all. So sad.
edited to add (6/6/05) (but people keep coming here for this story, so I better update it): Her father, Hank Brooner, passed away in February 2005.
