Theodore H. Brodie, of Duxbury and Ocean Reef Key Largo, Fla. died Sept. 12 after a long battle with Multiple Myeloma.  Born in 1929 to the late Martha and Theodore E. Brodie of Brookline, he lived in Brookline, Minneapolis, and Pembroke, before settling in Duxbury in the 1950’s.  

Mr. Brodie was the CEO and owner of Canton based New England Insulation Company for 50 years.  He was awarded the Cushing Gavin Award in 1995 by The Labor Guild for excellence in labor management.  He served as president of the National Insulation Association (NIA), and received the NIA Man of Year Award in 1988. He served as Trustee of the New England Carpenters Benefit Funds and the Insulators Local 6 Benefit Funds for many years.  Mr. Brodie was a graduate of Tabor Academy in 1946 and Bowdoin College in 1952.  He endowed the Bowdoin Brodie Family Scholarship Award to help middle class students since 1970, the Bowdoin Brodie Family Annual Education Lecture and a Tabor Academy Scholarship. He is a Trustee Emeritus of Bowdoin College. Mr. Brodie joined the Navy in 1953 and attended the Naval Officer Candidate School, completing service as a LTJG Naval Air Observer (NAOC) in 1956.  As a member of the Duxbury Yacht Club, the New York Yacht Club, and The Blue Water Sailing Club, friends will remember him as an avid sailor aboard his sailboat Unite.

Mr. Brodie contributed to the Duxbury community as an elected School Board Member, a member of the Finance Committee, a Deacon at Pilgrim Church, and a Free Mason. He supported many local organizations including the Duxbury Bay Maritime School. He was first married to the late Judith Swanson Harrison in Duxbury in 1953.

He was member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), World Presidents Organization, Chief Executive Organization (CEO) and was active in the local chapter of the New England 49’ers for many years.

Mr. Brodie leaves his  wife of 32 years, Robin G. Brodie of Duxbury and Ocean Reef Key Largo, Fla.;  his children, Glenn Brodie and his wife Linda Brodie of Duxbury,  Karen Brodie Doyle of Wayne, Penn., Beth Brodie of Burlington, Vt., Mark Brodie and his wife Margot Brodie of Hingham, and Blake Underhill and his wife Maria Underhill, of Dover;  his sister Carol Auriema and her husband Carlos, of Staten Island, N.Y.;  and ten grandchildren.

Donations in Mr. Brodie’s memory may be made to Multiple Myeloma Research at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and the Bowdoin Brodie Scholarship Fund at Bowdoin College.  A memorial service will be held in Duxbury in October, details are not finalized.