Sharon Anne Brown

Sharon was born April 13th, 1943 in Vancouver BC. She attended Lord Byng secondary school and York House School for Girls. As a child and a teenager, Sharon grew interested in the arts and books. She was highly intelligent and sensitive. Most importantly, Sharon was rebellious.

Sharon was raised in the 40's and 50's by her Grandmother (Susan Longworth Phipps), whose own husband had died and who remarried an American named Carl Brown. Carl Brown came to be the only ‘father’ Sharon knew. Sharon loved him.

In her twenties, Sharon moved to Toronto and then eventually New York City, where she worked at various retail jobs and department stores. During this time she lived in a brownstone on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. https://streeteasy.com/blog/nyc-brownstone-history/

In 1978, Sharon was back in Vancouver and gave birth to a son, Nicolas Milano Brown. She remarried in 1986, separated in 1991, and was widowed in 1994. Throughout Nicolas's childhood and teenage years Sharon supported herself and him as a mostly single mother working as a telephone operator, market researcher, and fundraiser.

She would continue working in market research and fundraising for the Vancouver Opera House until she retired at age 65.

She was an artistic, classy, and stylish woman who surrounded her son with books and stories and movies his whole life.

She was a woman, and she is missed dearly.

"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope."

"If you only have one smile in you, give it to the people you love."

- Maya Angelou

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