Charles Hunt Brown III

Charles Hunt Brown, III, 68, of Madison, Georgia, entered hospice care in May, 2025, and died peacefully on Friday, July 18, 2025, at the Sandy Springs home of his sister, Cheryl Brown Sykes.

Hunt was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on April 10, 1957, to Marilyn Cox Brown and Charles Hunt Brown, Jr., both of whom pre-deceased him. He spent his early childhood in Atlanta where he attended The Westminster Schools. In 1968, his mother and stepfather (James Hardee Elliott, Jr.) moved their combined family to Madison, Georgia, where Hunt attended Morgan County Schools and Rutledge Academy. He graduated from Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia, and received a Bachelor of Arts in drama from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. He attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles, California. Hunt received a Juris Doctor from Emory University School of Law in Atlanta, Georgia in 1992. He was a member of the Georgia Bar Association and the Leadership Georgia Class of 1996.

Hunt once described his work career as having begun in high school when he was a post office clerk. Prior to becoming an attorney, he managed the highest volume Domino's Pizza in Charlottesville, Virginia and then founded and operated a sandwich shop, Daddie's, in Tampa, Florida. Throughout his life, Hunt wrote and self-published works of fiction and non-fiction and made extraordinary chocolate candy which he gave as gifts. Hunt has noted that he received more than his share of commendations for doing both ordinary and sometimes extraordinary things.

As an attorney-at-law, mediator, and problem solver, Hunt was the founder and Director of Justice for All, a non-profit firm that provided pro-bono legal services to over two thousand families and individuals of modest means. He later established Good Divorces, a family law practice that focused on mediation to help divorcing couples build a sustainable post marriage relationship through the practice of Imago. His book, How to Save your Marriage by Becoming a Better Man, was a valued resource to a Men's Group Hunt founded and led for many years. This group still meets weekly and focuses on holding its members accountable for their actions and encouraging them to support each other through difficult times.

In addition to his parents, Hunt was preceded in death by his grandparents, Willie Robbs and Ruth Still Cox of Atlanta, Georgia, and Charles Hunt and Marie Stead Brown of Birmingham, Alabama; brothers James Hardee Elliott, III (Jay) of Atlanta, Georgia and John Pope Elliott of Marietta, Georgia. Hunt was a Great Daner. His first Dane, Dominique; his long-time Dane trio of Antigone (Tig), Cleopatra (Cleo), and Mea Culpa (Mea); and the Dane duo of Catherine the Great Dane (Kate) and Figchen (Fig) predeceased him.

Hunt is survived by his sisters, Lyn Brown Hunt (Lowry) of Madison, Georgia, and Cheryl Brown Sykes of Sandy Springs, Georgia; sister-in-law Melissa Burgett Elliott of Marietta, Georgia; nephews Weyman Hunt (Ashley) of Madison, Georgia, Robbs Hunt (Johanna) of Salem, New York, Preston Elliott of Atlanta, Georgia; nieces Tiffany Jeanne (Sykes) Berry (Matt) of Elkridge, Maryland, and Anne Elliott Zdon (Joe) of Brookhaven, Georgia. He is also survived by eight great nieces and nephews, and by his Harlequin Great Dane, Demmie (a play on Demitasse), now of Sandy Springs, Georgia.

A family service was held on July 26, 2025, at the Madison home of Hunt's sister and brother-in-law, Lyn and Lowry Hunt. Following the service, his ashes were interred at the Episcopal Church of the Advent Memorial Garden and a visitation was held at Advent's parish house. An intimate gathering of family and friends orchestrated by Hunt gathered at the Cherokee Country Club on August 8, 2025, to celebrate his life.

Hunt's family asks those who wish to make a gift in his memory consider Lucky Farms Animal Rescue (www.luckyfarmsrescue.org/wish-list or c/o Heather O'Brien, 95 Old Hwy E, Bethpage, TN 37022), The Marilyn Cox Elliott Room as part of the planned renovation of the Episcopal Church of the Advent Parish House (Episcopal Church of the Advent, 338 Academy Street, Madison, Georgia 30650), The Cox Family Endowment Fund at the Morgan County Foundation (The Madison Morgan Cultural Center, 434 South Main Street, Madison, Georgia 30650),or the charity of their choice.