Luis Fernando Browne Obituary (1930 – 2022) The Washington Post

LUIS FERNANDO BROWNE Could 5, 1930 ~ Could 8, 2022

A descendant of the primary president of Chile, Luis Browne was born in Viña del Mar, Chile to Luis Browne Fernandez, a number one Chilean architect, and Carmen Vial Freire. Luis spent his early childhood in Chile and moved to London with Carmen’s second husband, Octavio de Señoret, ambassador to Nice Britain. Upon de Señoret’s loss of life in 1941, Carmen joined the Chilean Diplomatic Corps and she or he and Luis had been despatched to america. In 1950, Carmen married Stephen Olin Dows of Rhinebeck, N.Y., a muralist and warfare correspondent.

Luis attended the Fessenden Faculty, Milton Academy, and Balliol Faculty, Oxford earlier than becoming a member of america Marine Corps. After finishing recruit coaching at Parris Island, S.C., he was designated a drill teacher. His recruit platoons gained honors as finest at school a number of occasions, and he was chosen for Officer Coaching Faculty. As such, he turned a United States citizen. Upon his discharge from navy service, Browne enrolled at Harvard Faculty the place he met Edith Gammack of New York. They had been married in 1957 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York Metropolis. They’d three kids, Olin, Luis Jr., and Jeremy. Browne turned an funding banker in New York for a number of years earlier than transferring his household to Washington D.C. in 1961 to affix the newly established Inter American Growth Financial institution. His duties had been funding infrastructure in Central and South America and he was chosen as a consultant of the IDB to Venezuela and Jamaica. Luis and Edith divorced in 1971. Luis met Nathalie Kuhn in Washington D.C. they usually married in 1974 on the North Shore of Massachusetts. Upon his retirement from the IDB, Luis and Nathalie returned to Luis’s roots in Chile to run the household dairy farm, which they became a showpiece of Chilean milk manufacturing.

Within the mid 1990’s, Luis and Nathalie returned to america to be nearer to their households and settled in Tequesta, FL. Luis is survived by his three sons, Olin Browne (Pam), Luis Browne Jr., and Jeremy Browne (Sharon), two grandchildren, Olin Browne Jr. (Katherine) and Alexandra Browne, and two nice grandchildren, Olin Browne III and Anders Browne.

Because the patriarch of the household, Luis referred to himself as “Browne,” which morphed into the endearing moniker, “Senior,” bestowed upon him by his sons’ mates, and for which he was without end and once more identified. Luis was at all times on the middle of the storm; he liked his mates, was an avowed animal lover, an enthusiastic fisherman, and passionate golfer. Later in life, he turned an avid artist. He liked his devoted spouse, Nathalie, of just about 50 years, his sons, grandchildren and nice grandchildren, and was dearly liked in return.

Providers non-public. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions could also be made to an area animal rescue affiliation.