Roger Lee Brown

Roger Lee Brown passed away at his home in Fremont on March 19, 2024, at the age of 84, in the company of loved ones. Roger was born in Seneca, Kansas, the second of six children of Lawrence Brown and Mildred Leimbach Brown. Roger moved to Oakland and later to San Lorenzo, where he met and married Judith (Sellmeyer) in 1959. She joined him in Germany for his term in the Army during the Vietnam era. Roger and Judy were happily married for 60 years, until Judy's death in 2019. They raised two children and helped to raise their granddaughter. Later, their great-grandson also spent much of his first years in their home. Roger was a hard-working man and a skillful craftsman. He worked as a flooring installer and did much of the remodeling of his own house. His granddaughter remembers being his "little shadow" as he worked in his garden, growing gourds that he dried for carving and painting. He also enjoyed social gatherings, travel, sports, and reading. His "vices" were Coca Cola and Marlboro Reds. His family was the center of Roger's life. He served as a Boy Scout leader and took his son fishing every week for father-son time for many years. He and his daughter entered the father-daughter baking contest at her elementary school every year, winning it twice. His great-grandson, whom he liked to call "Clint", was the light of his later years, and the feeling was mutual. Roger met many trials with patience and philosophy and was often the calm in the center of the storm. His family remembers him as hard-working, stubborn, loving, sensitive, tough, but always a "teddy bear". Roger was preceded in death by his beloved wife, Judy. He leaves behind his grieving family: son David Erik Brown, daughter Leslie Nicole Brown, granddaughter Devan Lynnette Brown, and great-grandson, Casen Lee Brown (aka "Clint"), siblings Larry Brown, Bill Brown, Marilyn Grant, Carol McKelvey, and Barbara Weber, and a large extended family and many friends.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to the American Lung Association or Boy Scouts of America in Roger's memory. A memorial celebration of life is pending.