Mr. Walter L. Brown This is Me

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1. 1. Obituaries (washingtonpost.com)

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   Published on: 8/26/2001   Last Visited: 8/26/2001

   Walter L. Brown
   
   Teacher
   
   Walter L. Brown , 78 , who retired in 1990 as a biology teacher and assistant band director at Eastern High School , died Aug. 22 at Providence Hospital. He had cancer.
   
   Mr. Brown , who lived in Washington , was born in Birmingham. He played the trombone in a U.S. Navy band during World War II. He was a graduate of Tennessee State University and received a master's degree in public health from North Carolina College.
   
   He began his career in the early 1950s as a music teacher in Hillsboro , N.C. , and then moved to Washington.
   
   He was band director and taught biology at Bel Alton High School in La Plata until 1966 , when he went to Eastern.
   
   He was a member of Omega Psi Phi social fraternity , the Washington Teachers Union , the Tennessee State Alumni Association and Asbury United Methodist Church in Washington , where he participated in the Men's Chorus , United Methodist Men and the food pantry.
   
   His marriage to Valerie DeVore Ackiss ended in divorce.
   
   Survivors include his wife , Johnnie R. Brown of Washington , and their daughters , Nata K. Brown of Atlanta and Afra P. Brown of Washington.