Edward Ansel Brown

Edward Ansel Brown - SAVANNAH - Edward Ansel Brown died Christmas morning at Hospice House Savannah after an extended illness. Born in 1925 in Chattanooga, he was graduated from the Baylor School of Chattanooga and from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he was president of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and elected to the honor society of Omicron Delta Kappa. During World War II, he served as a navy instructor after attending Columbia University and the University of South Carolina. In 1948 he joined General Electric Company in Atlanta and in 1950 opened a sales office in Savannah for G.E.'s Lamp Department. From there he rose through the company to the position of marketing manager for International General Electric traveling the world and working out of New York while he and his family lived in New Canaan, CT. Later he moved to Cleveland, OH, and to G.E.'s Nela Park. For 30 years he and his family lived in Gates Mills (Cleveland), OH, where he was a member of the Chagrin Valley Hunt Club, senior warden at St. Christopher's-by-the-River and president of the Improvement Society. In 1994 he retired to Savannah where he was a member of the Oglethorpe Club, the Landings Club, St. Peter's Episcopal Church, and enjoyed playing golf. He is survived by his wife Martha Kane Brown and their three daughters: Allison Faircloth Brown of Milton, MA; Martha Dickey Brown and husband Jeffrey Alan Libert of Cambridge, MA; and Sarah Kane Brown and husband Glenn Alan Pierce of Kingsland, TX. The five grandchildren are Virginia Brown Baerst and Benedict Brown Baerst of Milton, MA; Elizabeth Clark Libert and Anderson Brown Libert of Cambridge, MA; and Remington Kane Pierce of Kingsland, TX. He was preceded in death by his parents Retha Faircloth Brown and James E. Brown of Chattanooga, brother James E. Brown, Jr., and wife Mary Frances Parham of Knoxville, and by his son-in-law John Stephen Baerst, husband of daughter Allison. The Memorial Service will be Monday December 28 at 10 o'clock at St. Peter's Episcopal Church, 3 West Ridge Road, Skidaway Island, with The Reverend Samuel Walton Buice officiating. Memorial contributions may go to St. Peter's Church or to Hospice Savannah, Inc., P.O. Box 13190, Savannah, GA 31416. The family especially thanks Beth Conaway, R.N., for her care during this year with Hospice. Please sign our on-line guest book at www.foxandweeks.com Savannah Morning News December 27, 2009 Please sign our Obituary Guest Book at savannahnow.com/obituaries .