Theodore Brown

Theodore (Ted) Brown was born March 1, 1945, to parents Mr. Theodore Thomas Brown and Mrs. Florence Mae Brown. His father and mother created a nurturing home for their three children: William Brown, Ted Brown and Hazel Harrod. Ted Brown had a love for learning how things work. He would take things apart, to learn how they can be fixed and reassembled. He enjoyed fixing automobiles and making model aircraft. At 17 years of age, Ted joined the United States Air Force. He served as an Aircraft Maintenance Manager, Aircraft Propulsion Superintendent, and a Jet Engine Technician. He received several medals and honors for his service including the following: - Small Arms Marksmanship Ribbon - NCO Professional Military Education Ribbon [Oak Leaf Cluster] - Meritorious Service Medal [Oak Leaf Cluster] - Air Force Commendation Medal [Two Oak Leaf Clusters] - Air Force Good Conduct Medal [Five Oak Leaf Clusters] - Vietnam Service Medal [Two Bronze Service Stars] - National Defense Service Medal - Air Force Presidential Unit Citation [for Extraordinary Heroism] - Air Force Outstanding Unit Award [One Leaf Cluster] - Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross with Device - Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal Ted Brown served in Vietnam, Germany, and Italy and retired from the U.S. Air Force as a Chief Master Sergeant, awarded July 1, 1980. He worked as a Command Propulsion (Jet Engine) Logistics Support Leader; maintaining J-57, J-75, J-79, F-100, TF-34, jet engines. He specialized in the disassembly, inspection, repair and test cell operations, installation and removal in aircraft. Ted led logistics planning for the F-110 (new turbofan). In 1982, General Electric Aircraft Engines acquired Ted as a Product Support Manager for his aircraft consulting capabilities in the Air Force during the F-110 program. Mr. Brown continued giving aerospace consulting advice for several countries: Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Singapore, and Japan. He led several large teams providing logistical support for military and private sector customers around the world. Ted Brown served as a Field Service Engineer for Honeywell, giving leadership to teams in North and South America. He focused on the cross utilization of Field Service Engineer talent. Mr. Brown served as an Electrician aboard the United States Navy Texas nuclear class submarine for Northrop Grumman. He drafted continual interpretation drawings and cooperated with project engineers to ensure installations met project scope. His team provided recommendations to improve drawings for follow-on submarines. In addition to leading some of the most influential projects that shaped the military and private aerospace sector, Ted Brown was a spiritual advisor, ordained on October 29, 1988, and published writer. Theodore Brown wrote an award-winning, published poem in Across the Way: Channels, titled, "Our Choices…" Our Choices We didn't choose our natural parents, Nor do they ultimately choose what we will be. We came here with varying gifts and talents For the World to experience or see. We each decide whether we will speak or quiet our voice. It is we alone, who finally make our choice. We are all given individual opportunities to use or to waste. Though at times we find ourselves reacting in haste. Yet who knows which of us will have a solution, healing or cure. For a world in need of prosperity to secure. If we would but the criticisms endure. We learn many things during our journeys here. Some life changing, others to discard, Selfishness at times masquerades as fear. And has its own reward. But to not go on bodly is to lose, If we choose. Although at times we attempt to be aloof, The pursuit of acceptance often encourages the denial of truth. Mr. Theodore Brown transitioned April 11, 2020. He is survived by his older brother, William Brown and younger sister, Hazel Harrod, and three children, Stori E'lan Brown, Christen Ande Brown, and Justin Theodore Brown. My father, known to some as Theodore Brown, to others as Tank or Bubba, still others he was called Yoda for his enigmatic observations. Dad had a deep thought process about things, and always had a perspective on things that I just had not considered. When you asked Dad a question, you rarely would get a binary answer. That's something that I really had to grow to appreciate about him personally.That's truly what made him so special to me; his wisdom really was on another level. Looking back now, for all the cool exterior that Dad exhibited, his story was quite passionate; he was an engineer, a service member, a father, a son, a man of God, a friend, a husband, a philosopher, and a poet. I think we can all draw inspiration from all that he accomplished in his life journey. While his journey will take him beyond the stars, he leaves a challenge to us all to thrust forward and do something wonderful. Theodore Brown was a highly intelligent man who had many accomplishments. Many, people like myself, looked up to him and learned so much from his experiences. My fondest memories were my childhood times with him as I was a daddy's girl. We used to take our routine bike rides, manicure the lawn, and wash the cars. He used to hear the roar of an F-15 or F-16 jet flying in the distance. The closer they got, he would tell me everything about them. It's still such a familiar sound that makes me ponder on the good times share. That was my dad, Theodore Brown. He will be sincerely missed.