Duane Bentley Brownlow, 55, passed away unexpectedly on March 2, 2020 in Spring Lake, Michigan. Bentley was born in Marietta, Georgia on September 2, 1964. He attended the Atlanta Area School for the Deaf in Clarkston, Georgia and was a 1985 graduate of the Georgia School for the Deaf where he played football and honorably served as a “resident prankster.” Bentley was enormously proud of his deaf culture. In 1987, Bentley graduated from Floyd College (now Georgia Highlands) with an All Technologies Trade Certificate made possible through the Job Training Partnership Act of 1982. Bentley then joined the Herman Miller Company where he has worked as a robotics welder for more than 30 years. Bentley was highly skilled, artistic, funny, warm and loving. He created many beautiful illustrations as gifts for his family. It is remarkable that after a lifetime of profound deafness caused by meningitis in infancy, that Bentley’s final gift to the world was his donated gift of sight. Bentley was preceded in death by his father, Duane Reid Brownlow, and is survived by his beautiful wife, Nancy Kethley Brownlow and their family of beloved Miniature Pinschers and a Pomegranate Mix; his mother, Theresa Brownlow McDonald; grandmother, Elizabeth Chandler; brother, Bryan Brownlow (Angela); and sister, Lee Ann Ramsey (Bill). He adored his extended Kethley family and mother in law, Caroline Kethley. He will be missed by his nieces, Ashley, Erica, Anna, and Hayden, his nephew Reid, his great nieces and nephews, and his beloved deaf communities in Georgia and Michigan. Visitation will be held on Sunday, March 8, 5pm—7pm. On Monday, March 9th a visitation and lunch reception will begin at 11:00 am with a funeral service following at 1:00 pm. All services will take place at Winkenhofer Pine Ridge Funeral Home, Kennesaw, Georgia. A procession to Shady Grove Baptist Church will follow immediately after the funeral for internment. Bentley’s uncle, Rev. Calvin Brownlow will officiate and pall bearers are Robin Thompson, Wayne Bolton, Bill Ramsey, Phillip Ramsey, Reid Ramsey, Tom Kethley, Jim Kethley, John Kethley, and Herman Alston. Donations to the Georgia School for the Deaf Alumni Association (GSDAA), Attn: Bentley Brownlow Memorial, PO Box 76, Cave Spring, GA 30124 or to Shady Grove Baptist Church, 3885 Lee Street, Acworth, GA 30101 are greatly appreciated.
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