Paul "Brownie" Brown*

*Deceased.
Merv Post:Paul Brown ( Brownie) and I were good friends. He went to Franklin Thompson Jr High School and graduated in the class of 1950. His father had a gas station downtown and Paul used to work there washing cars and doing other helpful chores on Saturdays . He had a brother Obie. He used to get to ride his dad's red Jeep and often we would go to Nantasket Beach in it . It was an open, really bumpy ride. Brownie graduated Boston English in the class of 1953 (with the group) and later continued his studies and graduating from Northeastern. He and I were lovers of music and we would spend lots of time hanging out listening to all sorts of records. Brownie was the " Ladies Man "and a good dancer of the group and one of the first of us to get laid as a teenager making us all very envious. He married Beverly Landsman who I used to tutor in Mathematics at UMASS. They had a few boys and lived, I think, in Westport, CN. My parents were very close friends of his parents ( Jean & Harry). I last saw them in Florida in 1987 when visiting my dad after my mother's death. His dad at the time was suffering from Parkinsons Disease.

On May 14, 2010 Natey Freedman noted a posting on our STAG blog from Corey Brown, the son of Obie Brown, Paul`s younger brother ( 6 years). Cprey expressed interest in learning more about the Dorchester STAGS, but did not leave any forwarding email address. Natey quickly came up with several Corey Browns in the Boston area (the beauty of the computer) with addresses and phone numbers. Merv followed up and left messages on the answering machines. Lo & behold, the mysterious Corey called Merv at 9PM that night.

Paul, son of Jean and Harry Brown grew up on Fuller St.. As you know Harry owned a Mobil Gas Station on Albany St. downtown and several parking lots. Brownie used to help his dad out on weekends washing cars and pumping gas.

He loved music,was a neat dancer and had raging hormones. He graduated from Frank V Thompson Jr high school and then went on and graduated from Boston English in 1953. He was a ladies man of the first degree and was an outgoing groovin guy.. He graduated from Northeastern and went on to Graduate School at Syracuse University. He was an accountant .

He married Beverly Landsman in 1958. Beverly grew up in Winthrop and attended UMASS Amherst for a few years and was in the sorority STD. Beverly transferred to and graduated from B.U. Paul took a job with the Ford Company and they moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan. They had two sons:Jeffrey and Eric. Later they moved back east to Connecticut and lived in Old Greenwhich and later settled in Westport. We think he worked for NBC for a short time then Corey thought he worked for the Playtex Company.

Paul died on January 14, 1976 at the early age of 40 from a heart attack. When Beverly remarried she wed Paul`s first cousin, David Young (His mother`s sister`s son ). Beverly married David (now 61) who was about 12 years younger and the couple moved out to California. Beverly was a teacher in the LA area. She is about 73 years old now.

Jeffrey is now about 47, is married to Susan and they have a son, Branden.

Eric, Paul`s youngest son, died in 2000 at the age of 34.