SUNBURY -- Scott B. Brown, 50, of 155 Fairview Ave., went peacefully to be with the Lord on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2007, at Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, where he was surrounded by his wife and children.
He was born April 2, 1957, in Sunbury, a son of the late Paul and Betty Brown. In 1976, he married the former Diane Young, who survives.
Scott was a 1976 graduate of Shikellamy High School.
He was employed at ButterKrust Bakery and especially enjoyed his Lewistown route, where he made many lifelong friends. He retired from ButterKrust in June 2006.
Scott was a loving husband, father, brother, grandfather, uncle and friend. Through his five years of illness, he had a wonderful, unselfish, and positive attitude. He constantly amazed his doctors, family and friends with his strength. His only concern was for his wife and children.
Scott had a great love of the outdoors. He loved camping and fishing with his family and many close friends. One of his greatest joys in life was teaching his children and many of his friends' children to fish. What a fisherman he was!
Scott was known by many for his special campfire breakfasts and "trout" dinners. One of his favorite camping sites was Ole Bull State Park, where he volunteered his time each year at the annual children's fishing derby. He also enjoyed summer camping trips with his family and friends on the beach in South Carolina and hiking and exploring the mountains and trout streams of Maine and the western states.
Scott enjoyed life to the end. He was able to spend a winter month with his son, daughter-in-law and grandson in South Carolina. He was also able to spend two months during the spring camping and fishing at Ole Bull with his family and friends, a June two-week camping adventure to Maine with his wife, and his last camping trip to the beach in August with 27 family members and friends.
His only wish that wasn't fulfilled was to take his only grandchild, 9-month-old Ethan Scott, fishing. Scott will be greatly missed by his family and friends.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by two sons and a daughter-in-law, Jason and Shannon Brown of Florence, S.C., and Andrew Brown, at home; one daughter, Jessica Brown, at home; one grandson, Ethan Scott Brown; one brother and sister-in-law, Douglas and Patti Brown of Northumberland; one sister-in-law, Lisa Brown of Shamokin; and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.
He was preceded in death by one brother, Roger B. Brown.
Friends will be received from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday and 1 to 2 p.m. Thursday at Emmanuel Bible Fellowship Church, Sunbury, where the funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday with the Rev. Charles Cole officiating.
Burial will be in Northumberland Memorial Park, Stonington.
In memory of Scott and in honor of a very special doctor, Dr. Lisa Christopher at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md., in lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Johns Hopkins Research Center, 1 Charles Center, Baltimore, MD 21201.
Funeral arrangements are by the Jerre Wirt Blank Funeral Home, 395 State St., Sunbury.
This obituary was originally published in The Daily Item.
