FAMILY LIFE

photos of Lester R. Brown

Great Grandparents George and Martha Harvey Cain

Grandpop and Grandmom Brown

Calvin Brown (Lester’s father) inside car. Nicholas Brown (grandfather) standing outside

Dehlia Smith and Calvin Brown (mother and father), circa 1933

Calvin Brown

Lester, five years old

Lester and his younger brother Carl

The Brown Family:l to r: Carl, Mom, Lester, Pop, Marion

Lester’s father with his mules.

Stow Creek Elementary School graduates

Carl tending the pheasants

Planting tomatoes

The Brown Brothers’ truck

Lester loading a tractor trailer with 600 baskets of tomatoes, 1958

More tomatoes

A teenaged Lester at home

Lester and his tractor for the tomato growing operation

In his new Chevy

The family farm, current day

Lester, wife Shirley, and son Brian, 1960

Lester and Brian

The Brown family: Brian, Lester, Brenda, and Shirley

Family time

Lester and Brenda, 1983

Brian’s college graduation day, 1982

Graduation day for Brenda from veterinary school, 1994

Lester and Brian, 1985

Lester and granddaughter Bridget, 1994

Atop one of the Rocky mountains during a hiking trip with Brian in 1989.

Sister Marion razzing Lester while Carl awaits his turn at Lester’s sixtieth birthday celebration at the Cosmos Club,

Washington, DC, 1994

Brenda and Brian with Lester at sixtieth birthday

Elke and Uwe Gessner, long-lost cousins from the former East Germany, at Lester’s sixtieth birthday celebration

Uwe, Christine (daughter) and Elke Gessner

Maureen Kuwano Hinkle, Lester, Marion Spence, Carl & Mary Brown, and Bob Spence, 2004

Lester with his extended Brown family, 2009, taken at reception following the Smithsonian Museum of American History event, A Conversation with Lester Brown. L to r: Darlene Rosenberger, niece; brother-in-law Bob Spence, sister Marion Spence; Brian; Alison Dance; granddaughter Bridget; grandniece Olivia Rosenberger; Maureen Kuwano Hinkle; granddaughter Lena; sister-in-law Mary Lou Brown; brother Carl; Brenda; and grandson Cash (front). Photo by Hugh Talman.

Lester, Alison Dance, and Brian. Aspen, CO, 2010

Hiking with Brian in Alaska’s Denali National Forest, 2011

The Haun Family:Lena, Chris, Brenda, Bridget, and Cash, 2011

Blondeen & John Gravely, Maureen Kuwano Hinkle & Lester, Bob and Marion Spence. University of Maryland, Hall of Fame Induction reception, 2011

Fiftieth Reunion, Rutgers Class of 1955. Photo by Maureen Kuwano Hinkle

Bridgeton High School 60th Reunion. Photo by Maureen Kuwano Hinkle

Bridgeton High School, 2011(photo by Maureen Kuwano Hinkle)

Lena, Brenda, Bob, Bridget, Cash, Lester, Marion, Brian, and Shirley. Aspen, CO, 2011 (photo by Maureen Kuwano Hinkle)

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