Brown 60th

Ben and Elaine Brown

Credit
Tyler Macphee, grandson

Featured in: March 2016

BROWN 60th

Ben and Elaine Brown celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary with their children and grandchildren this fall surrounded by the beauty of the Columbia Gorge in Oregon.

Ben met Elaine Evanenko while enrolled in Union College's nursing program on the Denver, Colo., campus. They were married on Sept. 15, 1955, in Butte, N.D.

Ben and Elaine moved to Moses Lake, Wash., in 1962, where they made their home and raised their three daughters. Ben retired from his anesthesia practice in 1999, while Elaine retired as the head of the nursing department at Big Bend Community College in 1986.

The Brown family includes Tammy (Brown) and Mel MacPhee of Gresham, Ore.; Linda Brown of Portland, Ore.; Daina (Brown) Williams of Portland; 11 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren.