Born November 13, 1917 in Morgantown, West Virginia he was the son of the late Matthew A. Brown and the late Elizabeth M. Williams Brown.

Mr. Brown was a member of Calvary Presbyterian Church, serving as a Ruling Elder, Trustee and a Sunday School Teacher. He served on the steering committee of the Butler Valley Young Life and a member of the Butler Christian School Committee. Mr. Brown was a leader of the Lafayette Building Bible Study, a member of the Crossfire Steering committee and a member of the Calvary Church Christian Daycare Board. He graduated from Westminster College, Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon) with a degree in Management Engineering. Mr. Brown started his career with United States Steel Company in Youngstown as the Assistant Chief Planning Engineer and Assistant Chief Engineer of Construction Borough, then with Spang and Company in Butler starting as the Chief Engineer and advanced to Vice-President in 1958, to Executive Vice-President in 1963 and served as President of Spang and Company and Spang Industries, Inc. from 1968 until his retirement in June of 1976. Mr. Brown was director of the Butler YMCA, trustee and past president, assistant chairman and secretary of Butler County Memorial Hospital and head of the Building Committee, he was director of the Butler County Easter Seal Society, the Butler County United Way and the Butler County Symphony Association. Mr. Brown was a member of the Butler Chamber of Commerce, BPOE and the Butler Country Club. Mr. Brown was the past director of Tri-State Industrial Association, a member of the Newcomen Society of North America, a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Ohio, member of the Association of Iron and Steel Engineers, member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He was on the advisory board of Union National Bank, chairman of the advisory committee of the Court House, member and treasurer of the Butler Gathering Core Committee. Mr. Brown is listed in the "Who's Who in America" and an honorary member of Theta Tau and Kappa Phi Lambda (later Sigma Nu). Mr. Brown enjoyed golf, gardening, and music (piano and organ). He also enjoyed composing and poetry. Although he excelled in both civic and business endeavors, he always felt his greatest blessing was his loving marriage of 67 years to his beloved Jane and his unconditional love of his two daughters, Rebecca Jane and Judy and his son-in-law Jack Barkley.

Mr. Brown is survived by two daughters, Rebecca Jane Camlin of Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania, Judy and Jack Barkley of Butler, Pennsylvania; three granddaughters and their husbands, Heidi and Bob Vandrak of Harmony, Pennsylvania, Heather and Mike Sullivan of Chesapeake, Virginia, Jennifer and John Ivory of Gibsonia, Pennsylvania; one grandson and his wife, Jay and Jennifer Barkley of Gibsonia, Pennsylvania; nine great-grandchildren; Julia, Jane, Bobby, Stephen, Andrew, Emily, Ella, Katie and Erin, and by several nieces and nephews.

Mr. Brown was preceded in death by his beloved wife of sixty-seven years, M. Jane Brown who recently passed away on April 5, 2008. They were married on September 21, 1940.

Friends will be received at the Thompson-Miller Funeral Home, Inc., 124 East North Street, Butler, Pennsylvania on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.

Services will be held at the Westminster Presbyterian Church in America on Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 10:30 a.m. with Reverend H. Curtis McDaniel of Westminster Presbyterian Church in America officiating, and also retired Pastor L. Michael Winship officiating. Entombment will follow in Chapel of Devotion, Butler County Memorial Park.