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CAPT Donald Nathan
Brown, USN (RET)
Navy Meteorologist and Oceanographer
July 9, 2006
From: Donald A. Cruse
Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006
Subject: CAPT Don Brown
[Copied from WASHINGTON POST 7/18/06]
DONALD NATHAN BROWN, Navy Meteorologist
Donald Nathan Brown, 75, a Navy meteorologist and oceanographer, died July
9 at his home in Richmond. He had Parkinson's disease.
Captain Brown served in the Navy for more than 28 years. He was based
primarily at the Navy Annex, the Navy Yard and the Pentagon, with several
shipboard tours, including one 1963 expedition to locate a sunken nuclear
submarine, the USS THRESHER, off the coast of Boston.
He was born in Reading PA and graduated from Oregon State University. He
earned a master's degree in meteorology and oceanography from the Naval
Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA in 1960.
After his retirement in 1979, Captain Brown worked for Science
Applications International Corp. as a senior science consultant to NASA
and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena CA.
He loved running, tennis, books and teaching and tutored homebound
students in math and science for Fairfax County Public Schools. He moved
to Richmond in December.
Survivors include his wife of 47 years, Betty L. Brown of Richmond; two
children, Nathan Brown of Henderson, NV, Colleen Brown Erskine of
Annandale, VA; two step-children, David Dow of LeGrande, OR and Lorry Dow
Yoder of Arlington, VA; and eight grandchildren.
[Non-editorial comments: When I first met Don Brown about 1971 he was in
the Office of the Oceanographer of the Navy, located in Hoffman Building
#2 in Alexandria VA. RADM Snyder USN was the Oceanographer of the Navy who
was responsible for shifting the former Naval Weather Service Command
headquarters and the Naval Oceanographic Office to Stennis Space Center in
Bay St. Louis MS. Don Brown was a member of Potomac Regional Chapter
(NWSA) until his health began failing and he relocated for a while to
Nevada. Besides Parkinson's he suffered from macular degeneration.
Don Cruse]
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