Robert Bernard Brown's Obituary
Robert B. Brown
June 20, 1936 – January 01, 2025
Bob Brown, in Tarpon Springs, Florida passed away at 7:10pm. He was 88 years old.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio where he graduated from Collinwood High School in 1955. After high school, Robert studied at Kent and Ohio State Universities plus U of M and a RETS Graduate in Miami, Florida.
He worked 40 years at Electronics Communications Incorporated (ECI), which was acquired by E-System (now, Raytheon) in St. Petersburg, Florida, traveling many times around the world, as a Field Engineer and Technical Instructor for customer’s including NASA, the Department of Defense, WHCA/White House Communications Agency, etc. After 10 years, he took a, self-imposed, one year sabbatical to work at Erik's Chevrolet as Assistant Sales / Finance manager in Kokomo, Indiana. Upon returning to E-Systems, he was assigned to the President’s “Air Force One” aircraft during the Nixon and Ford administrations as a Special Advisor. After those assignments, more teaching, writing training manuals and world traveling. After retiring from E-Systems, he worked another 10 years for Baxter Health Care’s Bio-Medical Instrument Manufacturing Division in Largo, Florida. His duties and tasks were as a Products Analyst and Senior Project Buyer.
He was the loving husband of wife Judith (Blackburn) Brown for 35 years. He is also the loving father of (and survived by) daughter Lori (and her family in Ft. Lauderdale), sons Bob (and his family in Homestead, Florida), Chris (and his family in Riverview, FL), Nic and stepson Cooper. He loved the family's golden retrievers Brownie and Ace. He has cousins and nephews living in Indiana, Ohio, Florida and many other places. He enjoyed the outdoors, playing chess, reading, writing books, plucking out tunes on his 5-string banjo and talking to many friends on his amateur radio station. His extra class FCC license call sign was AA4DY.
Bob’s final words of love and wisdom: “I love you all and will miss seeing / talking to each and every one of you until we me again in Heaven”
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