Ellsworth "Reade" Brown

Ellsworth "Reade" Brown, 94, left this world and all who loved him dearly the morning of December 21. He was born in rural eastern Washington near Mount Hope to a farming family who later bought a farm near Cheney. Reade graduated from Cheney High School, did a very brief stint in the Army (thanks to rheumatic fever) then enrolled at the University of Idaho and was subsequently hired by the Washington State Department of Game where he spent the next 40 years doing what he always loved, working with wildlife.

In 1952 he married the other love of his life, Eddie. They moved a lot and travelled a...