Rev. William Brown ’62 of Richmond, Virginia, died Nov. 29, 2020. He was 80. After graduating from Illinois Wesleyan, Bill earned a degree in sacred music from Union Theological Seminary in New York. He was a permanent deacon in the United Methodist Church. He served as minister of music at Trinity United Methodist Church in Henrico County, Virginia, for over 20 years. He also served congregations at Grace United Methodist Church in Kokomo, Indiana, and Ginter Park Baptist Church in Richmond. He was a former dean of the Richmond chapter of the American Guild of Organists and a former treasurer of the American Guild of English Handbell Ringers. He was a devoted husband, father and grandfather. He is survived by two sons, six grandchildren, a brother, Donald Brown ’65, and many nieces and nephews. You can read more of his obituary here.
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I have fond remembrances of my classmate in the various classes we shared together. May he rest in peace.
Bill was a regular Hearts player at the first or second table in the evening meal line my freshman year at IWU. I loved to watch him practicing the organ for his senior recital. Ever the gentleman, he gave me a personal tour of the tunnels of NYC connecting Union Theological Seminary to Riverside Baptist Church the next year when Co-Choir sang in the round, stone chapel of Columbia U. That is a treasured memory because I never returned to NYC.