Benjamin Brown, a widower, engineer and long time resident of Monroe, died of cancer on February 15, 2017. He was age 90. Born on August 26, 1926, Mr. Brown grew up in the Bronx, New York. He was a 1945 graduate of Machine and Metal Trades High School in New York.

A World War II veteran, Mr. Brown was drafted into the Army Air Force after high school. When Mr. Brown scored well on military aptitude tests, the Army sent him to radio operator school to learn Morse code and radio transmitter maintenance. Mr. Brown initially served in the South Pacific during the war. After the war ended, he was honorably discharged as a Private First Class in 1947 from the 811th Engineering Battalion of the United States Army.

Mr. Brown then earned a degree from New York Technical Institute in 1949. Mr. Brown later became a Certified Senior Engineering Technician. He also earned his First Class radio telephone operator license from the Federal Communications Commission in 1976. Mr. Brown had a passion for electrical engineering; he worked as an engineer for most of his life until his retirement from Norden Systems, United Technologies, in 1991.

Mr. Brown had one step brother, Herbert Rattley, deceased. In 1955 he married his wife, Carlton Willis Brown, who passed away in April 2014. Carlton was a homemaker and then later worked in a factory until her retirement. The couple moved to Monroe Connecticut in 1971, where they resided until their separate hospitalizations for illness. Mr. Brown and his wife have two children: Veronica Brown, a Certified Nursing Assistant, and Wayne Brown, an attorney.

Benjamin Brown was a lifelong lover of chess. In addition to being a past member of the United States Chess Federation, he was also a member of the Monroe Senior Center chess club. He is survived by his two children, his daughter-in-law, Jinny Brown, and his three grandchildren, Stephanie Wright, Maxwell Brown and Lucius Brown.

Visiting hours will be held on Tuesday, February 21, 2017 from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. in the Dennis & D'Arcy - Abriola & Kelemen Funeral Home, 2611 Main St. Stratford. A funeral service will take place at 11:00 a.m. in the funeral home following the visitation. Burial services will follow in the Reed Chapel of Mt. Grove Cemetery, 2675 North Ave. Bridgeport with full Military Honors.. To offer online condolences please visit www. dennisanddarcy.com