Anne T Brown

Anne Thatcher Brown died peacefully on May 30, 2026, at a nursing home in Bountiful, Utah. She had been diagnosed several months before her death with end-stage dementia and declined very rapidly. She was just three weeks shy of her 79th birthday when she died.

Anne attended Marymount Junior College (now Marymount University) in Arlington, Virginia, and then graduated with a degree in elementary education from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. She taught third grade for over twenty years for the Charles County Maryland public school system. She bought computers and educational software for her students with her own money since the school where she taught had no computer support for students. She was quite the adventuresome solo traveler on her summers off from teaching. She traveled around Europe and stayed in youth hostels and rode her bike across the country, halfway by herself. She retired early and moved to Utah to pursue her love of skiing. She was diagnosed as having bipolar disorder as an adult but had the foresight to buy disability retirement insurance that allowed her to retire early. She bought an old house with several acres in West Valley City, Utah that had a small lean-to barn which allowed her to keep one or two horses while she lived there. Her lifelong love of horseback riding started when she was eight years old and she took riding lessons in Heidelberg, Germany, where her father, U. S. Army Colonel Desloge Brown (Helen Lanigan Brown), was stationed. She owned horses most of her adult life until she gave away her last horse when she sold her home last year and moved.

She was buried in the Valley View Memorial Park in West Valley City several miles from where she lived most of her life in Utah. She is survived by her brother Richard Desloge Brown. Her other brother, Dr. Martin Delaney Brown, died in December of 2023.