Ed Brown
Posted on: August 7, 2015
2015 Hall of Fame Inductees
Biography:
Born Daytona Beach 9-11-35, Graduated Mainland High School 1953, U of F 1958, Employed by Dura-Stress Inc. in 1958. Retired 2000 as V/P Operations but have continued to work in other training capacities.
Married 55 years to Sharlene who passed Jan. 8th 2013, 5 children, 3 boys, 2 girls. My mantra is: 1 GOD, 1 wife, 1 Job. Sounds like a boring life, but to the contrary far from it. Started Officiating CFOA 1958 worked until 2006. Avid snow skier & white water rafter.
Starting in 1998:
- Traveled to Zimbabwe Africa to train the first wheel chair basketball team headed to the South Africa games
- 1999 summited Kilimanjaro in Africa with my daughter & evangelist mission trip to the Maasai in Tanzania
- Evangelist mission to Cuba in 2004
- Construction mission to Eleuthera in the Bahamas four times between 2002 through 2006 working on Jordan Stone mission House
- Southern Brazil five times between 2007 & 2015 build churches & 300 miles down the Amazon delivering supplies to villages.
- Phnom Penh Cambodia building water tanks in 2013.
The LORD has blessed me with good health & I have been able to enjoy an active life style & have no plans to stop.