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Charles William Brown, Jr., 89, of Columbia City, passed away at 8:20 a.m. at Miller's Merry Manor in Columbia City.

Born on September 24, 1919, in Escambia County, Pensacola, Florida, he was the son of Dr. Charles W. and A. Geraldine (Treworgy) Brown.

In his early years, he lived on a farm in Coon Rapids, Iowa, and in Clarksville, Atlanta, Bryan and Beaumont, Texas. Charlie received his high school education at Bryan and Beaumont, Texas, graduating with the Class of 1935. He received a Bachelor of Science Degree in electrical and mechanical engineering from Texas A & M, College Station, Texas.

He was called to active duty in 1941, serving with the United States Army as a Captain in the Alaskan Defense Command also during his military service he spent time in New Jersey, California and Alaska.

He married Margaret L. Hamilton on August 21, 1944, in Fort Richardson, Alaska.

He moved to Fort Wayne and lived there from 1946-1955 while working with General Electric Company as an engineer. He then transferred in 1955 to Schenectady, New York where he continued to live until moving to Columbia City in 1995, when he married Frances Gordon Stuckey on January 14, 1995, at the Columbia City United Methodist Church.

His memberships included Columbia City United Methodist Church, IEEE, St. Vincent de Paul Society of St. Andrew's Church, Fort Wayne, and of St. Madeleine Sophie Church, Schenectady, New York. Also the Fort Wayne Association of GE Engineers, Schenectady GE Engineers Association, Lynnwood Improvement Association, Helderberg Ski Club, GE Bowling League, Boy Scouts of America, Whtiley County Literacy Council where he tutored for ten years, Whitley County Historical Society where he served as treasurer, Habitat for Humanity, Passages, Interfaith Mission (The Lighthouse), Peabody Public Library Landscape Committee where he watered the trees. Survivors include his wife, Frances E. Brown of Columbia City; two sons, L. Thomas (Jillanne) Brown, Tuscon, Arizona, and Mark E. (Megan) Brown, Guilderland, New York; 2 daughters, Nancy L. Brown, Belmont, Massachusetts, and Marcia A. Scheu, Portland, Connecticut; 3 step-children, Cleis Anne Pipino of West Hartford, Connecticut, Gordon Edward Stuckey and Mark Kenton Stuckey of Fort Wayne; 7 grandchildren, 4 great- grandchildren, 6 step-grandchildren, and 6 step-great-grandchildren; a sister, Beverly J. Knox, Fort Worth, Texas.

He was preceded in death by his father, Charles W. Brown, his mother, A. Geraldine Brown, and his first wife, Margaret L. Brown in 1994.

Visitation is from 4-7:30 p.m. with a 7:30 p.m. prayer service on Saturday, April 11, 2009 at DeMoney-Grimes Countryside Park Funeral Home. Pastor Paul Arnold of Columbia City United Methodist Church will officiate.

A second visitation is from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at Fredendall Funeral Home, 199 Main Street, Altamont, New York. Burial will follow at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at Prospect Hill Cemetery, Route Number 20, Guilderland, New York.

Memorials may be given in memory of Mr. Brown to Columbia City United Methodist Church, Whitley County Literacy Council or the Peabody Public Library.

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