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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Robert Clark Browning, 91, a naval architect with the Coast Guard and private businesses, died of pneumonia Dec. 22 at Prince George's
Hospital Center. He lived in Mitchellville.
Mr. Browning worked for the Coast Guard from 1941 as a marine engineer and naval architect, helping to design icebreakers, buoy tenders,
cruising cutters and small boats. He left the government in 1960 to work for Cummins Engine and Ingalls Shipbuilding, then returned to the
Coast Guard in 1977, retiring five years later.
Mr. Browning, a native Washingtonian, graduated from Western High School and the Webb Institute of Naval Architecture in New York.
He was chairman of the Chesapeake section of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers and chairman of the flagship section
of the American Society of Naval Engineers.
He enjoyed sailing and was a member of the Falls Church Episcopal Church, St. Martin's in-the-Field Episcopal Church in Severna Park and
St. Barnabas' Episcopal Church in Upper Marlboro.
He volunteered for Meals on Wheels and the LondonTown Publik House in Edgewater. He also served for three years on the board of the
residents' association at the Collington Episcopal Life Care Community in Mitchellville, where he had lived since 1992.
His wife of 65 years, Carolyn Gillespy Browning, died last year.
Survivors include three children, Barbara Browning Harp of Cambridge, Md., Elizabeth Browning Mason of Bellingham, Wash., and Charles
Millard Browning of Dunn Loring; a sister, Page Browning Hawk of Washington; six grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
-- Patricia Sullivan
Robert Clark Browning, 91, a naval architect with the Coast Guard and private businesses, died of pneumonia Dec. 22 at Prince George's
Hospital Center. He lived in Mitchellville.
Mr. Browning worked for the Coast Guard from 1941 as a marine engineer and naval architect, helping to design icebreakers, buoy tenders,
cruising cutters and small boats. He left the government in 1960 to work for Cummins Engine and Ingalls Shipbuilding, then returned to the
Coast Guard in 1977, retiring five years later.
Mr. Browning, a native Washingtonian, graduated from Western High School and the Webb Institute of Naval Architecture in New York.
He was chairman of the Chesapeake section of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers and chairman of the flagship section
of the American Society of Naval Engineers.
He enjoyed sailing and was a member of the Falls Church Episcopal Church, St. Martin's in-the-Field Episcopal Church in Severna Park and
St. Barnabas' Episcopal Church in Upper Marlboro.
He volunteered for Meals on Wheels and the LondonTown Publik House in Edgewater. He also served for three years on the board of the
residents' association at the Collington Episcopal Life Care Community in Mitchellville, where he had lived since 1992.
His wife of 65 years, Carolyn Gillespy Browning, died last year.
Survivors include three children, Barbara Browning Harp of Cambridge, Md., Elizabeth Browning Mason of Bellingham, Wash., and Charles
Millard Browning of Dunn Loring; a sister, Page Browning Hawk of Washington; six grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
-- Patricia Sullivan