Sharon Althea Brown

Sharon Althea Brown was born in Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies on March 4, 1963 and immigrated to Greenwich, Connecticut, where she lived with her parents,Mavis and Neville (deceased), and her siblings, Pat, Lorna, Oliver and Winsome. She graduated Greenwich High school and attended Georgetown University School of Foreign Service from 1981 to 1984. Sharon continued her formal education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany where she achieved a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1991. From childhood Sharon was always full of wonder, imagination and creativity. In fact, real toys were not a necessity for Sharon, she was content to play with whatever she conjured up. She loved Thinking! Her art expressed the wonder of thought and imagination as she would capture for us to experience, what she so clearly envisioned. Sharon’s love for thinking and imagining expressed itself in her business life as well, She designed and implemented training processes for major corporations such as Siemens, IBM, Met Life, to name just a few. Life was exciting for Sharon; she was a cosmopolitan! She lived in Munich, Germany for over twelve years of her young life, and fully embraced the culture, language and spirit of the German people. And although she lived only seven years of her life in the small island of Jamaica, West Indies, she loved a good Patois joke or story told in Jamaican vernacular. In addition to living in Greenwich, Connecticut, Sharon also lived in South Norwalk, aka SoNo, Boston, Massachusetts, Andover, New Hampshire and finally in Winter Park, Florida. In 2005 Sharon was diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disease known as Primary Biliary Cholangitis, commonly called PBC. There is no known cure and it destroys the bile ducts, which over time leads to cirrhosis of the liver. Since late last year Sharon began showing signs that the disease had advanced and had reached stage four status, suffering from jaundice, edema, insomnia, fatigue, nausea, itching sensations and extremely painful muscle spasms. In fact, Mayo Clinic which had been monitoring her over the past few years, had scheduled her for a transplant in June. Sadly however, she became gravely ill in mid May and was admitted to a local hospital on Mayo’s advice, but it was too late, she had gotten too ill for a transplant!! Sharon gave her life to the Lord Jesus Christ as a young teenager. She accepted the gift of a sure and certain salvation for her soul during an outdoor crusade at Village Lane Bible Chapel in Hauppauge, New York. As recently as just before she became gravely ill, Mom recalls her saying, “God is a good God.” So we praise the Lord for Sharon’s life and her testimony to the goodness of God. We thank Him for His mercy and His great love for her as she is now with Him in Glory. While living in her beloved, newly adopted home of Winter Park, Sharon embraced her community and developed friendships and relationships with local merchants. Sharon was dearly loved by all who knew her and will be sorely missed. She leaves her Mom, Mavis Brown, siblings, Oliver Brown (Brother), Patricia Pennant, Lorna Brown and Winsome Brown (Sisters). Many cousins, including Sonia and Michelle Baker, Yvonne Turnbull, Stacey Hamilton, Kamaye Pardo, Dylan Wint, Paullette Fullerton and Bobbette Blake. Uncles Harold, Joseph and Herbert Wint and their wives. Dear friends Kate Hay, Thora Balfour, Patricia Narmo and Angi Urbina, the Fray family, Hofmeier family, Rainey family and a host of college and work friends, her Church families at Macedonia Missionary Baptist, Eatonville, Florida and Shiloh Gospel Chapel in White Plains, New York.

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Sharon Althea Brown

March 4, 1963 - July 25, 2019