Ethan Allen Brown

Ethan Allen Brown passed away of natural causes in his beloved Seattle on the night of February 20, 2026. To his friends, he was Wolf, a name he adopted to express what he loved: the wild and the free, a being who is sometime a loner, but more often social. His howl was unmistakable, as was his talent as a poet and storyteller.
He was born in Rockville, MD to Carmele and Gerald Brown. He spent his childhood in the tiny town of Rohrersville, MD near Harpers Ferry, and he loved tramping through the mountains and along the Potomac River. There he acquired his lifelong love of the outdoors. Educated at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania, he studied English and Environmental Science. After graduating with a BA, he took to the road as a way to encounter all kinds of people and to live life far from suburbia.
His adventures were many, including stints driving huge trucks over ice tracks near the Arctic Circle, working on a tugboat in New York Harbor, monitoring endangered sea life on fishing boats off the Outer Banks and surviving a shipwreck on a scientific expedition in the Pacific. He was a licensed maritime pilot and an accredited Marine Mammal Observer. In his map of the world, the remote rivers of Alaska and the Dolly Sods Wilderness of West Virginia were probably his favorite places, with Seattle a close third
He is survived by a son, Casey Jack who teaches at the University of Alaska-Anchorage in the field of Yup’ik language studies; Ethan was especially proud of his son and his accomplishments. He is also survived by his brother, Jay Brown (Cindy)and his sisters, Paula Seebode, Pamela Brown (Jonathan Soffer)and Barbara Reed (Bob) and his nieces Nicole McKinley, Julia Brown, Kimberly Brown and nephews, Matt Calhoun and Jeremy Brown
In lieu of flowers, please contribute to the organization that has done so much for Wolf: Plymouth Housing, plymouthhousing.org