Roger Whittemore Brown Jr., 89, of Duxbury, died at home on Friday, June 20. Mr. Brown was born October 1, 1918, in Concord. He graduated from Lexington High School in 1936, a tennis team member and soccer player.  He then graduated from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1940, majoring in economics and dairying. Mr. Brown was the captain of the UMass Varsity Soccer team, a member of Lambda Chi Fraternity, the Outing Club and an active alumni chairperson of the quin-quintennial reunions.{sidebar id=4}

After a brief employment at Hood Dairies, he proudly served in the Army’s 10th Mountain Division in WWII in Italy. He continued to be an active member of “the 10th.” Following his military service he went into the family business, Roger W. Brown, Inc., Interstate Trucking and lived in West Medford with his wife Anna Skeers Brown.  After her death he moved to Yarmouthport where he was an avid golfer and member of the Kings Way Golf Club. In 1994, Mr. Brown married Ms. Norma Grant of Conn. They spent 11 years between Cape Cod and Florida with family and friends. They moved to The Village at Duxbury in 2005.

Mr. Brown leaves his wife of 14 years, Norma Brown, Deborah and Steve Bowen and family of Duxbury, Ralph Grant and family of Mount Pleasant, S.C., Elaine Grant of Easton, Md.; his extended family, Herbert Gray of Bridgeville, Del., the Adolphson family of W. Newbury and the Brown Schnare family of Worthington, the Chris Brown family of Green River, Vt., Patricia Brown Cummings of Bedford, Shirley Brown Howard of Westwood, Susan Stella Papalia of Andover and Louis Stella Jr. of Melrose.

A memorial service  will be held on July 13 at 11:30 a.m. at the Pilgrim Church of Duxbury, immediately followed by a reception at The Village at Duxbury.  Memorial contributions may be made to Cranberry Hospice, 36 Cordage Park Circle, Suite 326, Plymouth, MA, 02360 or to the UMass Cape Cod Scholarship Fund,134 Hicks Way, Amherst, MA, 01003.