Retired financial executive and long time Concord resident, Edward (Ted) Crowninshield Browne, died peacefully on July 21st in Westford, Massachusetts, in his 91st year. He spent his youth in New England and in the Midwest, but always spent summers on the family farm in New Hampshire with its treasured view of Mount Chocorua. One summer he made the commute from Cleveland, Ohio, traveling with both parents, both sisters and two dogs in a Model T Ford. The car never left Chocorua again. Ted graduated from Browne and Nichols School where he was head of the Student Council, Class President and Captain of the football team. He returned to his alma mater to serve on its Board of Trustees which he chaired from 1967 through 1970. After graduating in 1937, Ted entered Harvard College and, on the advice of an older relative, enlisted with the Massachusetts National Guard. His senior year was interrupted when he was called to active duty with the 101st Field Artillery of the 26th Infantry Division. I remained with the same unit of the 26th for the five years that followed, holding down, at one time or another, almost every assignment from bartender in the officers mess to battalion executive, he stated in a reunion report following the War. In September, 1944, the 26th Yankee Division landed in Cherbourg, France, and Ted was assigned to General Pattons 3rd Army. He served as a gunnery and operations officer with the rank of Major in a campaign that included the Lorraine, the Bulge, the Rhine, central Germany and ended in Czechoslovakia. In 1945 Ted returned to Harvard College graduating in June, 1946, with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics. He entered the Harvard Business School immediately and was soon engaged to Louisa (Babs) Huntington Garfield whom he married on November 28, 1946, at St. Marys Church in Rockport, Massachusetts. Their four children soon followed - Charles in 1949, twins Edward, Jr., and Mason in 1950, and Louisa in 1953. Teds business career progressed from Sales, to Management Consulting, to Finance. In 1958 he became controller of Fenwal, Inc, in Ashland, Massachusetts. After commuting for several months between Quebec, where the family was living at the time, and Massachusetts in a Volkswagen Beetle (he was an early adopter), he and his family soon settled into a new Deck House on Monument Street in Concord, Massachusetts, not far from Babss childhood farm in Carlisle. His career in the Boston area continued to assistant-controller with United-Carr Inc., and in 1970 he became vice-president (finance and treasurer) of Knapp King-Size Corp in Brockton, Massachusetts. He also served as a director of the Reed & Barton Corporation and of the Boston Chapter of the Financial Executives Institute. During his retirement years he worked as the Business Manager for Concord Academy and mastered the transition to personal computing by tracking investment performance for two investment clubs in his roles as treasurer. In addition to his trusteeship at Browne and Nichols School, his community service included seven years on Concords Finance Committee, Chairmanship for the Concord Community Chest Campaign in 1963, and serving the Concord Museum as treasurer. He was also volunteer treasurer of Emerson Hospital where two of his grandchildren were born during his tenure. Ted loved skiing and sailing. He was a member and long-time treasurer of the Drifters Ski Club in Jackson, New Hampshire, which included many of the former Harvard undergraduates with whom he had worked, under the direction of a University carpenter, to build the Harvard Ski Cabin in Pinkham Notch during the summer of 1939. He was also a member of the Sandy Bay Yacht Club in Rockport, Massachusetts, where he was an active sailor for many years. Ted is survived by his wife, Babs, by his four children and their spouses, as well as by ten grandchildren. He was predeceased by his sisters, Frances and Sarah, and by his parents Theodore Crowninshield Browne and Alice Towne (Billings). Memorials: In lieu of flowers donations in his memory may be made to the Chocorua Lake Conservation Foundation, P.O. Box 265, Chocorua, New Hampshire 03817. Service: A memorial service in remembrance of Teds life will be held at First Parish Concord, Massachusetts, 20 Lexington Road, at 10:00 am on Thursday, July 29, 2010.There will be a reception following the service at Newbury Court in Concord.