...E. Stanley Brown
U.S. Navy Lieutenant
USS Independence
Navy Pilot Group 27
Passed away peacefully Friday Dec. 30, 2011 surrounded by his loving family and friends at the Mountain View Nursing Home in Ossipee, New Hampshire. E. Stanley was born May 3, 1923 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. to the late Earl and Edith (Daley) Brown of Maple Avenue.
Stan’s first love was aviation. Only 10 years old while watching planes at a local airport, he would point to the sky and say “this is what I want to do in life.” Stan graduated from Saratoga Springs High School, Class of 1942. Stan studied business at Green Mountain College in Poultney, Vermont. He joined the U.S. Navy in 1943 and was assigned to the U.S. Navy Pilot Group 27 on board the USS Independence. He flew multiple missions in the south pacific islands including Guam. Stan was a naval flight instructor at the Pensacola Flight School in Pensacola, Florida. After the war graduated from the Albany Business School in Albany, N.Y. Stan worked as a Sales Manager for American Home Foods, and was a Sales Representative for the John Middleton Tobacco Company.
Traveling home on a train after the war 1946, he met his loving and devoted wife Gladys (Blanchette) Brown of Andover, MA, who he was married to for 63 years. Stan resided with his wife and children in Andover, MA, and spent his retirement years in Effingham, N.H.
Stan was a member of the Appalachian Mountain Club, and the Plum Island Aviation group. His interests included photography, and aviation history.
Stan will be deeply missed by his loving children: the late Deborah Ann (Brown) Teevens and her husband John Teevens of Monument, CO.; Gwenneth L. (Brown) Matarese and her husband the late Dr. Philip Matarese of Cranston, R.I.; Mark. R. Brown of Cocoa Beach, Florida; Carrie (Brown) Crowley and her husband John W. Crowley, Jr. of West Newbury, MA; his late brother Alfred Brown of Saratoga Springs, N.Y.; and many nieces, nephews, and grandchildren.
Calling hours were held in the Burke-Magliozzi Funeral Home, 390 North Main Street, Andover, Friday, January 6, 2012, from 5 to 8 PM. His funeral Mass was celebrated in St. Augustine Church, 43 Essex Street, Andover, Saturday, January 7, 2012, at 10:00 AM. Burial was held in the Spring Grove Cemetery in Andover.