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Lawrence Brown Obituary
April 26, 1930 - August 28, 2023
Lawrence "Larry" Brown of Moraga died of natural causes at the age of 93. He grew up in Palo Alto and attended Palo Alto High School where he was on the tennis team. After his freshman year at Stanford, he transferred to San Jose State to study business administration.
After graduation, he attended the Navy Officer Candidate School in Rhode Island and served three years in the Navy, assigned to cargo ships traveling to Japan. As legal officer, he enjoyed representing enlisted men charged with infractions. On his discharge from active duty, he entered Stanford Business School and earned his MBA. During that time, he made many life-long friends and became a Stanford football fan although he rooted for San Jose State when they played Stanford.
He continued his service in the Naval Reserve, attaining the rank of captain before his retirement in 1984.
He began his working life as an assessor for an insurance company then moved to the Bank of American where he specialized in international banking. He was a member of Big Brothers of San Francisco and had a long and happy relationship with his little brother Eric Rimes, starting in 1969.
He moonlighted teaching international banking at Vista College, now Berkeley City College.
In June of 1986 he married Neda Bruich, a nurse working in San Francisco, and lived in their Moraga home. They were a devoted couple and enjoyed many years of travel until Neda's death in 2021.
Lawrence was predeceased by his brother Robert and wife Pat and sister-in-law Marilyn Brown, all of Portola Valley, and is survived by brother Donal and wife Brenda of Corte Madera, brother Dan and wife Linda of Oroville, brother Allan of Portola Valley, Eric Rimes of Hawaii, numerous nephews and nieces, family friend and personal assistant Sarah Lindsay, and Neda's niece Lisa Fletcher and nephew Scott Fletcher of Minnesota.
The family would like to thank Hope Hospice and the John Muir Home Visit Program for their support, and Lawrence's personal attendants, notably Emerita Stewarts, Marietta Dela Cerna, and Wendy Alfaro, for their loving and expert care of our brother in his last years.
Memorial contributions in Lawrence's name may be made to Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area or to Hope Hospice East Bay Area.
Services will be private.
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