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Rev. James Good Brown - 1901 to 2008 A video prepared In Loving Memory by his Great-Grandson Max Moraga The January 4th, 2009 Memorial Service - Download His Boston Post Cane Presentation
HAVERHILL, NEW HAMPSHIRE - Rev. James Good Brown, citizen of Haverhill, New Hampshire died at the age of one-hundred-and-seven years having the honor of being the oldest citizen of Haverhill, New Hampshire. The Boston Post Cane Recognition was given to him at a gathering at his home, Wintra’s Homestead, on April 29, 2005. A memorial service was held at four p.m. on Sunday, January 4 at the Haverhill Congregational Church on the common in Haverhill Corner, New Hampshire. Dr. J. Good Brown had lived in Haverhill since 1976 with his wife Valerie Wentworth, after retiring from the ministry. Valerie died on February 21, 2001. Dr. Brown was born in Bellfonte, Pennsylvania on July 17, 1901. His father William Henry Brown was a famous preacher in the Methodist church. His mother Minnie Ella Aurandt Wetzel Brown was considered a Noble Lady of her community. Dr. Brown graduated from Albright College in 1923, but he was ordained into the ministry in early years in college. He was assigned to the ministry of a Methodist Church in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. He was a Minister while he was in College. He continued studies in Yale Divinity School for his theological training, receiving his Bachelor of Divinity in 1931 from Yale Divinity School. He graduated in 1936 with his PhD from Yale Graduate School. He married Mary Frances Curry after he graduated from college and had three daughters, Winona, Leota and Juanita. He was married for fifty-two years until Mary Frances Curry died. He will be remembered as an outstanding preacher, and as a warm and beloved pastor. Dr. J. Good Brown had three successful pastorates in New England. They were: The Goshen Congregational Church, Connecticut (ten years); The First Congregational Church Lee, Massachusetts (five years); and The First Congregational Church Ansonia, Connecticut (fifteen years). Dr. J. Good Brown volunteered for military service in 1942. He was assigned to serve as the Chaplain of the 381st Bomb Group of the United States Army Air Forces' Eighth Air Force based in Ridgewell, England. He was discharged from active service in 1946 but remained in the Army Reserves for an additional nineteen years. After the war he returned to his Church in Ansonia and retired in 1976. His war time memoirs, "The Mighty Men of the 381st: Heroes All" was published by the Publishers Press of Salt Lake City, Utah in 1984. After his retirement, he married Valerie Wentworth, and lived with her for twenty-five years until her death in 2001.
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