Brent Ashabranner's father lost the drugstore to the Great Depression economy in 1932, followed by closure of their bank.
11 Facts About Brent Ashabranner
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Brent Ashabranner was an avid reader and writer in school and became increasingly interested in foreign countries.
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Brent Ashabranner's vessel visited much of the Pacific before the war ended in August 1945.
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Brent Ashabranner took a job as an instructor in the school's English department and the couple had two daughters in the early 1950s.
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In 1955, Brent Ashabranner was given a chance to work in Africa.
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Also while there, Brent Ashabranner became a non-fiction writer, working with Davis on their last and best-selling book together, Land in the Sun: The Story of West Africa.
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Brent Ashabranner bought a house in a Maryland suburb of Washington, DC and his daughters graduated from Walter Johnson High School there.
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In May 1969, Brent Ashabranner was among the guests invited to the Nixon White House for Joseph Blatchford's swearing-in ceremony as the third Peace Corps director.
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Daughter Jennifer illustrated several of Brent Ashabranner's books, beginning with Always to Remember about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
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Brent Ashabranner collaborated with daughter Melissa in Into a Strange Land and Counting America.
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Brent Ashabranner died on December 1,2016, and was survived by his wife and daughters, three grandchildren, and a great-grandchild.