AMVETS REMEMBERS COMMANDER VAUGHN L. BROWN

Lan­ham, Md., Aug. 15, 2012 — AMVETS Past National Com­man­der Vaughn L. Brown, Sr. passed away Mon­day, Aug. 13, 2012.

Mr. Brown joined the Navy three days after the attack on Pearl Har­bor. He served as a corps­men at a naval hos­pi­tal in Casablanca, Morocco tend­ing to injured ser­vice mem­bers that were attempt­ing to defeat Ger­man forces in Africa.

Brown held many posi­tions in AMVETS prior to his elec­tion as the national com­man­der in 1990. He had many accom­plish­ments dur­ing his year as com­man­der, vis­it­ing posts in 36 states dur­ing his tenure. Brown was able to per­son­ally wel­come home 10,000 Desert Storm troops in Wash­ing­ton, D.C., where he joined lead­ers from other vet­er­ans ser­vice orga­ni­za­tions at the Wel­come Home cel­e­bra­tion. Brown also expanded AMVETS mis­sion to focus on depen­dents of vet­er­ans by vis­it­ing sev­eral children’s homes and schools, show­ing that AMVETS was ded­i­cated to help­ing vet­er­ans’ families.

Brown belonged to AMVETS Penn­syl­va­nia Post 19, where he served as post com­man­der for two terms and post finance offi­cer for 20 years. His wife, Anne Brown, served as the AMVETS Ladies Aux­il­iary Pres­i­dent in 1980. Brown was employed for over 20 years by Lan­caster Laun­dry. Brown was also a guber­na­to­r­ial appointee to the Lan­caster Hous­ing Author­ity for five years, chair­man for the Lan­caster Hous­ing Author­ity for three years, and PTA pres­i­dent in two Lan­caster, Pa., ele­men­tary schools.

Vis­i­ta­tion will be Fri­day, Aug. 17, 2012, from 7 to 9 pm, and Sat­ur­day, Aug. 18, 2012, from 11 am to 1 pm at Fred Groff Funeral Home, 234 W. Orange St., Lan­caster, Pa. A funeral ser­vice will fol­low Saturday’s vis­i­ta­tion at 1 pm accom­pa­nied by a lunch at AMVETS Post 19 in Lan­caster, Pa.