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A Lifetime Of Kindness
of the most specialized kinds of therapy
that you could do, without any formal
training. His great passion in life was to
try to find a way to help other people.
arty Brown was known for
It was not uncommon to wake up
his exuberant personality,
in the morning and find the family of a
always engaging strangers,
patient sleeping in the house or having
always the life of the party.
my father called to the hospital in the
He spent his first two years of adulthood
middle of the night when something
as a repertory actor.
went wrong for a patient," Brown said.
But he spent the bulk of his life
Mr. Brown served as
involved in real-life dramas,
of CLF three •
president
without a script, relying
times
and
Sylvia was its
only on his sense of kind-
first executive director
ness and compassion. The
from 1952-1981.
hospital rooms of leukemia
Leukemia, today, is not
patients replaced the theater
the certain death sen-
for him. His stage was at
tence that it was 50
the bedside of dying
years
ago. With
patients.
chemotherapy,
radiation
Harry S. Brown, 85, of
and
bone
marrow
trans-
West Bloomfield, who
plants, the outlook for
along with his wife, Sylvia,
patients has improved
were founders of Children's
immensely. CLF has
Leukemia Foundation of
grown from the Browns'
Michigan (CLF), died
distributing canisters to
Sept. 9 of cancer. The
Harry Brown
store counters in the
Browns, whose 2-1/2 year-
early 1950s to the mil-
old daughter, Sandra Ann,
lion-dollar-budgeted agency it is today.
died of leukemia in 1946, became pio-
People helped by the foundation
neers in the field of counseling families
started out-state chapters of CLF.
and patients with leukemia in Michigan.
"Harry would be instrumental in getting
Sylvia Brown recalled, "In those days,
the chapters started, to lead them, said
it was very quick. There was nothing we
Sylvia Brown.
could do for the children. Just a few
But mostly the Browns worked
child
was
blood transfusions and the
together.
"This was a 62-year love story,"
It
was
very
traumatic
for
both
of
gone.
she said. "We couldn't bear to be away
us.
from each other.
"That gave Harry such an impetus to
After they both retired from founda-
do something, to help other people.
tion
involvement in their 70s, the
That was the purpose of our starting
Browns
started volunteering at a residen-
this organization, to help people cope
for JARC. "That became a big
tial
house
with this terrible, terrible trauma."
of
their
lives," said Barry Brown.
part
Mr. Brown worked for more than 30
"They needed to be giving."
years as a greeting card salesman and
Daughter Abby Pook said, "It made
account manager for American
us more caring and compassionate peo-
Greetings, visiting drugstores and card
ple to have parents like that."
shops in the Detroit area.
Barry Brown said that his father
Said his wife, "His personality was
never
left the house without a pocketful
such that he endeared himself to every-
of
balloons
or other small toys that he'd
body. He was a man of great fun. He
offer to any child within his reach.
loved fun and he loved children.
Growing up, Barry said he would some-
"In everything he did there was posi-
times feel embarrassed by the attention
tiveness, and it rubbed off on the people
his father showed to strangers they'd see
he was counseling. The people who sur-
on the street or in stores, always doting
vived for any length of time couldn't do
on children. As he grew older, Barry
anything but praise him — this wonder-
came to realize that, "Who could better
ful man who came into their home or
appreciate the delight of a precious tod-
hospital room, who just walked in and
),
dler than someone who has suffered the
took over.
loss of one?
Son Barry Brown, a social worker,
"When your heart is filled with that
described his father's efforts with adult
much
love, there's no choice but to let
and child patients and their families.
some
of
it out."
"He was doing death work, which is one
DAVID SACHS
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In Loving Memory of My Beloved Father
GABRIEL GLANTZ
Who passed away September 19, 1996. You taught me so much,
my dearest father. I am so very lost without you. I miss you
terribly. Your loving daughter, Arlene.
In Beloved Memory of
JACK LITINSKY
Always in our hearts.
His kindness & love forever.
Remembered by
the Litinsky Family
The Family of the Late
JANET PROG
Wishes to acknowledge with
deep appreciation the many
comforting messages and
expressions of kindness and
concern during the family's
recent bereavement.
American Heart
Associations.
9/17
1999
Fighting Heart Disease
and Stroke