William Browning

1931 - 2021

William (Bill) Moyle Browning

1931-2021

Salt Lake City, Utah —William (Bill) Moyle Browning passed away peacefully at home on April 25, 2021 at the age of 89.

Son of Allie Preston Moyle and Harold Walker Browning, he was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on August 7, 1931. He attended the University of Utah and was a proud member, and President, of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. Bill graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Architecture in 1957 and later became a partner of the architectural firm, Scott, Louie and Browning. During an impressive architecture career, he created many highly respected works in the Salt Lake Valley including the Steiner American Building, J.C. Penney Building, Fifth Judicial Circuit Courts, and the Eaton-Kenway Building.

In honor of his many achievements in architecture, Bill received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Utah Chapter of the American Institute of Architects in 2007.

Although architecture was his career and he achieved much honor and success from it, his life-long passion was flying. Since childhood, Bill was intrigued with airplanes. He earned a private pilot license and was President of the Soaring Society of Utah in 1970. Soon after, he purchased a Piper Cub and later a Christen Husky, both of which he flew to Alaska numerous times where he enjoyed documenting his adventures with photography.

In 1959 he married Diane Gilbert and had three children, Michael G. Browning, Salt Lake City, David W. Browning, Salt Lake City and Kathleen (Philip) Richardson, Phoenix, AZ.

After Diane's death, Bill married Ann Castleton Blackner in 2004.

Bill was preceded in death by his parents, brother Richard Browning, sister Marcia Dreyer, wife Diane Browning. Survived by wife Ann Blackner, children, and grandchildren Alison, Erica and John.

Bill will be remembered for encouraging others to pursue their passions, for his humility in his own achievements and his remarkable integrity and reputation.