KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – Charles Edwin “Papa Charlie” Brown passed away peacefully at home surrounded by loved ones on Oct. 22, 2015.

He lived a full life beginning with his grand entrance on March 17, 1937, to parents Ed and Lillie Brown in Cardin, Oklahoma.

At an early age, as a result of The Great Depression, his family – including sisters, Madelyn, Evelyn and Sara Mae, and brother, Bobbie – moved to the town of Mojave where he spent much of his youth looking for (and finding) the kind of adventure a boy could find in those days.

Eventually his dad found work in the Sacramento area, where Charlie continued on his hunt for the next good time.

It was one of these “good time” hunting trips that landed him in Kelseyville, where he met a red-haired girl named Marilyn Anderson.

They fell in love and were soon married, a marriage that would last for the next 57-plus years.

He continued with his adventure through life and, together, he and Marilyn would have three children, Rob Brown, Terri Hendrickson and Vicki Totorica.

Charlie worked as hard as he played and drove truck all of his working life to support his family.

He is also survived by sons-in-law Frank Totorica and Greg Hendrickson, and daughter-in-law Kim Brown; 11 grandkids, Steven (Nikole), Jordan, Tyler and Juliette Brown, Michaela Schnabl (Rick), Adair (soon-to-be grandson-in-law, Daniel), Curtis and Nick Hendrickson (Betsy), Jacob (Megan) and Jenna Hoberg, and Juliann Totorica; and six great-grandkids, Hayden, Branden and Benjamen Brown, Gracie Schnabl, and Kyle and Tatum Hendrickson. He was also very close and extremely proud of his many nieces, nephews and too many cousins to count.

He loved hunting, fishing and his mules.

Charlie Brown will be missed by many and forgotten by none.

A celebration of life will be held at Grace Evangelical Church, 6716 Live Oak Drive in Kelseyville, at 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21. Please come and share memories.

For further information please call Chapel of the Lakes Mortuary at 707-263-0357 or 707-994-5611, or visit www.chapelofthelakes.com .