The surfing community lost one of its most OG members when Parker “Woody” Brown died Wednesday, April 16, 2008 Hale Makua, Kahului, Hawaii. He was 96.
“Woody Brown was one of the first and greatest icons in the history of surfing,” state Sen. Fred Hemmings said Friday.
“He was the essential surfer, an iconoclast: extremely independent, futuristic and, most especially, healthy — which explains why he lived for 96 very productive, wonderful years,” said Hemmings, the 1968 world surfing champion who inaugurated the world professional surfing circuit in 1975. “… I only hope more of us who call ourselves surfers can live the way Woody lived.
Woody Brown is survived by his wife, Macrene; three sons, Woody Brown Jr., William Parker Brown and Jeffrey Sellon; two daughters, Mary Sue Gannon and Jennifer Snyder; and 10 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren.
He will be missed, but his legacy will live on.
[Link: Honolulu Advertiser]
