OSSINING, N.Y. -- David Boyd Brown, 64, of Ossining, died Friday, April 11, 2003, at Westchester County Medical Center in Valhalla.
Mr. Brown was the founder and CEO of Blue Sky Studios in White Plains for 13 years. Blue Sky Studios won an Academy Award in 1998 for “Best Animated Short Feature.” He continued as a consultant in the entertainment industry.
He was born April 3, 1938, in Springfield, Vt., to M. Boyd Brown and Emmy Lou Nothnagle Brown.
He was educated in Gill, Mass., and graduated from Mount Hermon School in 1957. He earned a bachelor's degree in medieval history from Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vt., in 1960. He also earned an MBA from Columbia University in Manhattan in 1967.
Mr. Brown served in the U.S. Marine Corps. He lived in Ossining for the past 13 years. Before that, he lived in Manhattan from 1965-90. Locally, he was a member of the Union Church of Pocantico Hills in Pocantico Hills; The New York Apline Club; The Wilderness Society; the Vermont Land Trust; the Audubon Society and the Environmental Committee in Ossining.
Mr. Brown will be remembered for his kindness, great love of life and for his joy with the outdoors. He loved to bike, run, swim, ski and hike and had a wonderful entrepreneurial spirit.
He is survived by his wife, Andrea Bailey of Ossining; brothers Harry Brown of Westmoreland, N.H., and Frederick Brown of Long Beach, Calif.; three nephews; three nieces.
He was predeceased by his father, and his mother, who died in 2002.
Memorial service will be held Wednesday, April 16, at 11 a.m. at Union Church of Pocantico Hills, 555 Bedford Road, Pocantcio Hills.
Interment will follow in Vermont on Thursday, April 17. Friends may send memorial donations to Union Church of Pocantico Hills, 555 Bedford Road, Pocantico Hills, NY 10591.
Waterbury & Kelly Funeral Home, 45 So. Highland Ave. (Route 9), Ossining, is in charge of arrangements.
