Charlie Brown.
Charlie Brown -- by Susan Kelley Brown
I LOVED the old telephone directory you posted dated June 1963! Charlie Brown was a single man but only for another month! He married my Mom in July 1963 and moved to "Wilcote" on Barry Rd in St Georges. I was born in August 1964, brother Mike in July 1965 and brother Greg in January 1974.
Charlie Brown was an electician by trade. That is what he did at his bench at SOFAR (when he wasn't out on the Sir Horace). After Sofar moved to Florida, Dad opened up his own Electrical contracting business and it proved a very viable business up until he physically couldn't do the work anymore. He was a one-man show, sometimes carrying 6 foot lengths of conduit on his motorcycle all the way to Hamilton! (I'm sure there are pictures but they would be with my Mom in New York).
Anybody who knew Charlie Brown knew he was way more than just an electrician, his carpentry skills were second to none and his plumbing skills were nothing to sneeze at! In his down time, he was also an avid sailor, musician and maratime history buff. There wasn't a ship that passed in front of the house going up the channel that he could not recite the entire history on. I remember raft-ups every weekend on our various boats (I remember the Cocoa Bravo, Ariel and Sea Shell). Of course you don't have a raft-up without music and Dad provided harmonica and guitar but could also blow a saxaphone and was in a band during his bachelor years. As a result, all three of us kids and one of his grandsons are musical playing anything from piano, to tumpet.
Around the early 90's Dad started having problems with his blood and was diagnosed with Myelo-displastic anemia. He passed away in September 2000 just 2 months short of his 70TH birthday. His memorial service/funeral was held at St Peters and he was buried in the cemetary up behind St Georges Prep overlooking the ocean.
When they say only the good die young, they mean Charlie Brown.
Posted Dec. 31st 2013
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I LOVED the old telephone directory you posted dated June 1963! Charlie Brown was a single man but only for another month! He married my Mom in July 1963 and moved to "Wilcote" on Barry Rd in St Georges. I was born in August 1964, brother Mike in July 1965 and brother Greg in January 1974.
Charlie Brown was an electician by trade. That is what he did at his bench at SOFAR (when he wasn't out on the Sir Horace). After Sofar moved to Florida, Dad opened up his own Electrical contracting business and it proved a very viable business up until he physically couldn't do the work anymore. He was a one-man show, sometimes carrying 6 foot lengths of conduit on his motorcycle all the way to Hamilton! (I'm sure there are pictures but they would be with my Mom in New York).
Anybody who knew Charlie Brown knew he was way more than just an electrician, his carpentry skills were second to none and his plumbing skills were nothing to sneeze at! In his down time, he was also an avid sailor, musician and maratime history buff. There wasn't a ship that passed in front of the house going up the channel that he could not recite the entire history on. I remember raft-ups every weekend on our various boats (I remember the Cocoa Bravo, Ariel and Sea Shell). Of course you don't have a raft-up without music and Dad provided harmonica and guitar but could also blow a saxaphone and was in a band during his bachelor years. As a result, all three of us kids and one of his grandsons are musical playing anything from piano, to tumpet.
Around the early 90's Dad started having problems with his blood and was diagnosed with Myelo-displastic anemia. He passed away in September 2000 just 2 months short of his 70TH birthday. His memorial service/funeral was held at St Peters and he was buried in the cemetary up behind St Georges Prep overlooking the ocean.
When they say only the good die young, they mean Charlie Brown.
Posted Dec. 31st 2013
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