He grew up in Scottsdale where he graduated from Scottsdale High School earning awards in football and track. This is where he also met his first wife Stephany Hancock and they shared 2 daughters. In 1963 Ed enlisted in the U.S. Army. During his first assignment in Korea, he met and married Carol Nichols in 1967 and they shared 3 children. After her death, he reconnected with his first love from high school, Victoria Zoeller. They were married in 2003 and shared 17 years of travel, hobbies and love that gave him much happiness in the final chapter of his life.
After a distinguished twenty-year career in the Army, Ed retired in 1983 and started his second career with Phelps Dodge in Morenci, AZ. He ran the medical clinic where he was known as Doc Brown for the next 20 years, (interrupted briefly in 1991 when he was recalled by the Military for Operation Desert Storm and served in Ft Meade Maryland). In 2004 he retired from medicine and moved back to the Phoenix area.
Ed was preceded in death by his parents and his sister Debbie. He is survived by his wife Vicky his children Kimberly (Jim) McCall, Margaret (Zig) Bircz, Katherine (Roger) Hess, Edwin Owen Brown and Kellie (Jason) Ray, step children Susan Aroz and Timothy Russell. 17 grandchildren (4 of whom followed his footsteps into the military), 4 great grandchildren and his best friend Charlee.
Awards and decorations:
Soldiers Medal, Bronze Star W/ "V" OLC, Air Medal W/ "V" 3 OLC, Meritorious Service Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, PUC W/OLC, MUC, Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry W/Palm, Vietnam Campaign Medal W/ 60 Device, Vietnam Service W/4 Bronze Service Stars, Combat Medical Badge, Flight Surgeon Badge, Master Parachute Badge, Master HALO Badge, Vietnam Parachute Badge, Army Service Ribbon, Army Good Conduct Medal (3rd Awd), NDSM W/OLC, Expert Rifle Badge.
After a distinguished twenty-year career in the Army, Ed retired in 1983 and started his second career with Phelps Dodge in Morenci, AZ. He ran the medical clinic where he was known as Doc Brown for the next 20 years, (interrupted briefly in 1991 when he was recalled by the Military for Operation Desert Storm and served in Ft Meade Maryland). In 2004 he retired from medicine and moved back to the Phoenix area.
Ed was preceded in death by his parents and his sister Debbie. He is survived by his wife Vicky his children Kimberly (Jim) McCall, Margaret (Zig) Bircz, Katherine (Roger) Hess, Edwin Owen Brown and Kellie (Jason) Ray, step children Susan Aroz and Timothy Russell. 17 grandchildren (4 of whom followed his footsteps into the military), 4 great grandchildren and his best friend Charlee.
Awards and decorations:
Soldiers Medal, Bronze Star W/ "V" OLC, Air Medal W/ "V" 3 OLC, Meritorious Service Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, PUC W/OLC, MUC, Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry W/Palm, Vietnam Campaign Medal W/ 60 Device, Vietnam Service W/4 Bronze Service Stars, Combat Medical Badge, Flight Surgeon Badge, Master Parachute Badge, Master HALO Badge, Vietnam Parachute Badge, Army Service Ribbon, Army Good Conduct Medal (3rd Awd), NDSM W/OLC, Expert Rifle Badge.
He grew up in Scottsdale where he graduated from Scottsdale High School earning awards in football and track. This is where he also met his first wife Stephany Hancock and they shared 2 daughters. In 1963 Ed enlisted in the U.S. Army. During his first assignment in Korea, he met and married Carol Nichols in 1967 and they shared 3 children. After her death, he reconnected with his first love from high school, Victoria Zoeller. They were married in 2003 and shared 17 years of travel, hobbies and love that gave him much happiness in the final chapter of his life.
After a distinguished twenty-year career in the Army, Ed retired in 1983 and started his second career with Phelps Dodge in Morenci, AZ. He ran the medical clinic where he was known as Doc Brown for the next 20 years, (interrupted briefly in 1991 when he was recalled by the Military for Operation Desert Storm and served in Ft Meade Maryland). In 2004 he retired from medicine and moved back to the Phoenix area.
Ed was preceded in death by his parents and his sister Debbie. He is survived by his wife Vicky his children Kimberly (Jim) McCall, Margaret (Zig) Bircz, Katherine (Roger) Hess, Edwin Owen Brown and Kellie (Jason) Ray, step children Susan Aroz and Timothy Russell. 17 grandchildren (4 of whom followed his footsteps into the military), 4 great grandchildren and his best friend Charlee.
Awards and decorations:
Soldiers Medal, Bronze Star W/ "V" OLC, Air Medal W/ "V" 3 OLC, Meritorious Service Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, PUC W/OLC, MUC, Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry W/Palm, Vietnam Campaign Medal W/ 60 Device, Vietnam Service W/4 Bronze Service Stars, Combat Medical Badge, Flight Surgeon Badge, Master Parachute Badge, Master HALO Badge, Vietnam Parachute Badge, Army Service Ribbon, Army Good Conduct Medal (3rd Awd), NDSM W/OLC, Expert Rifle Badge.
After a distinguished twenty-year career in the Army, Ed retired in 1983 and started his second career with Phelps Dodge in Morenci, AZ. He ran the medical clinic where he was known as Doc Brown for the next 20 years, (interrupted briefly in 1991 when he was recalled by the Military for Operation Desert Storm and served in Ft Meade Maryland). In 2004 he retired from medicine and moved back to the Phoenix area.
Ed was preceded in death by his parents and his sister Debbie. He is survived by his wife Vicky his children Kimberly (Jim) McCall, Margaret (Zig) Bircz, Katherine (Roger) Hess, Edwin Owen Brown and Kellie (Jason) Ray, step children Susan Aroz and Timothy Russell. 17 grandchildren (4 of whom followed his footsteps into the military), 4 great grandchildren and his best friend Charlee.
Awards and decorations:
Soldiers Medal, Bronze Star W/ "V" OLC, Air Medal W/ "V" 3 OLC, Meritorious Service Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, PUC W/OLC, MUC, Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry W/Palm, Vietnam Campaign Medal W/ 60 Device, Vietnam Service W/4 Bronze Service Stars, Combat Medical Badge, Flight Surgeon Badge, Master Parachute Badge, Master HALO Badge, Vietnam Parachute Badge, Army Service Ribbon, Army Good Conduct Medal (3rd Awd), NDSM W/OLC, Expert Rifle Badge.
