Brice Stuart McIntosh

Our beloved father and grandfather, Brice Stuart McIntosh, passed away peacefully at home surrounded by his wife and children on January 25th at the age of 92. He is survived by his wife of 68 years, Jane Ann McIntosh, his daughters Sandra Jane McIntosh, Cheryl Lynn Martz, and Dana Ann Barab, and grandchildren, Griffin Stuart Van Winkle, Grant Henry Van Winkle, and Susanna Russell Rogers.

He was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on June 2, 1932, and had a happy childhood where his mother instilled in him a deep and abiding love for God. He did not consider it curious when his mom insisted his friends come in the house for bible reading and prayer before he was allowed out to play. In high school, he wrote that “one of the hardest jobs a person can undertake is to evaluate himself” and that he “hoped to be the same kind of friend that he would pick to be his friend: honest, trustworthy, courteous, jolly, and most important of all, loyal”. This describes the man our father was to all who had the privilege of knowing him.

After graduating from the University of Florida with a Business Administration degree, he was commissioned an officer in the US Air Force and was stationed at Moody Air Force Base in Valdosta, Georgia, where he met the love of his life, Jane Ann Taylor. They went on to have three daughters whom they raised in Florida, New Jersey, and Atlanta. He enjoyed an exciting and rewarding career in advertising and retired in 1997 as Senior Vice President and Director of Marketing Services at William Cook Advertising in Jacksonville.

He used his career as a platform to build long and lasting relationships by sharing his Christian faith and being a “light in the workplace”, reflecting the character of Christ so that others might come to know the Lord. He was engaged with Campus Crusade for Christ, Christians in the Media, and was a board member of the Jacksonville Advertising Federation. He was a member of Men For The Moment, an evangelical Christian outreach ministry, was a member of Aspire Church, where he taught adult bible studies and was instrumental in creating a lasting community outreach program in the Duval County School system, and he served as Master of Ceremonies for several of Mayor Jake Godbold’s prayer breakfasts.

He had a creative talent for writing and left behind a library of bible studies, prayers, and letters. Many of those prayers and letters were written for his beloved grandsons, Grant and Griffin, to whom he poured his life into and who were the absolute delight of his life.

Our beloved father ran the race, fought the good fight, and was ushered into heaven, where we know he heard the words from his Heavenly Father, “Well done, my good and faithful servant”.

“In my father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going.” John 14:2-4

A visitation for Brice will be held Monday, February 24th between 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM at Corey-Kerlin Funeral Home, 940 Cesery Blvd., Jacksonville, FL 32211, immediately followed by a funeral service for friends and family who wish to attend. A committal service will occur afterward at 2:00 PM at Jacksonville National Cemetery, 4083 Lannie Road, Jacksonville, FL 32218.