John Marshall Brown

John Marshall Brown, 90, of Okatie, SC died March 15, 2013 at NHC-Bluffton. He was born October 26, 1922 in Providence, Rhode Island to Elizabeth Daboll and Wendell Stimpson Brown.He attended Brown University where he received a Mechanical Engineering degree and Northeastern University where he received a Master in Business Administration degree. A Registered Professional Engineer, he served as a president of the North Shore Chapter, MSPE, vice president of the Mass. Society of Professional Engineers, and member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.At Brown University he was a member of the N.R.O.T.C. and was commissioned an Ensign US Navy in February 1944. He served the US Navy on board destroyers: the USS Wilkes and the USS Wren in World War II and the USS Murray in the Korean War, positions including Communication Officer, CIC Officer, and Chief Engineer.Most of his career was spent with General Electric Company in the Medium Steam Turbine, Generator and Gear Department in Lynn, Massachusetts, holding a number of different engineering positions, retiring in 1986 as Manager of Generator Engineering. While in this position, he served as chairman for the Generator Sub-Committee of the International Electronic Commission and served in various capacities in other engineering organizations. In retirement, he obtained a General Contractors License. Being self-employed, he contracted new residential homes in New Hampshire and North Carolina. He was active in church throughout his life, treasurer, deacon, and member of the Building Committee at the new Grace Coastal Church (PCA) in Bluffton, South Carolina and most recently deacon at the Okatee Baptist Church in Ridgeland, South Carolina. He served with the Gideons International.He is survived by his widow, Sandra Jean (Greeley) Brown, a daughter Susan Gibbs Carroll of Easton, Conn., two sons, John Richard Brown of Westford, Mass., and Robert Moore Brown of Marblehead, Mass., a brother, Roger Hope Brown of Concord, N.H. and a sister, Constance Elizabeth Lovell of Exeter, N.H., five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.Memorial services will be held at 1pm, April 20, 2013 at Okatee Baptist Church, 5467 N. Okatie Highway, Ridgeland, SC.The family requests any memorial donations be made in John's honor to either The Gideon's International, PO Box 3906, Bluffton, SC 29910, or United Missionary Service Inc., Evie McNutt Minitstry, PO Box 720405, Houston, TX 77272-0405, or to the Okatee Baptist Church, 5467 N. Okatie Highway, Ridgeland, SC 29936.Remembrance may be made to the Gideons International, McNutt Ministries, and the Okatee Baptist Church.