Aphrodite P. “Freida” Brown, 89, of East Falmouth died August 15, 2018, in Hingham.

Born July 3, 1929 in Palmer, she was the daughter of the late James E. and Sophia (Papadopoulos) Pappas.

Freida attended Palmer public schools, working in her father's Main Street restaurant, The Plaza, during her teens. As a child she loved swimming at Lake Thompson, ice skating on the frozen Quabog River, and gazing out her bedroom window at Mount Dumplin. She graduated from Palmer High School in 1947 and from Becker College in Worcester in 1950. After working as a secretary for the Springfield Ordinance District at the United States Armory, she moved to San Diego, California, joining the Barnes-Chase advertising firm as a time and space buyer. She married Wilbur A. Brown in San Diego in 1956. They separated in 1987.

After returning to Massachusetts, she devoted her life to raising her four children, moving to Quincy in 1957, Springfield in 1959, and Wilbraham in 1967. She retired in 1997 to Cape Cod, where she and her husband had built a summer cottage near Woodneck Beach in the Sippewissett area of Falmouth in 1965.

Freida filled her life, and those around her, with a love of music, laughter, performing arts, pottery, food, cats, politics, travel, New Yorker cartoons, and the beauty of New England's seasons. A voracious reader, she craved sharing whatever she learned. Above all, she was a compassionate advocate for equality and human rights, and a tireless provider, nurturer and protector for her family and friends.

She leaves her sons Stephen (Sheila) of Hingham, Allan (Valerie) of Stewart Manor, New York, and Mark of East Falmouth; daughter Dessa (Karl) Meyer of Manhattan Beach, California; grandchildren Ashleigh (Sam) Kaplan of South Boston, Arianna Brown and fiancé Gregory McQuade of South Boston, Alexandra Brown of Hingham, Amelia Brown of New York City, and Olin and Zoë Meyer, both of Manhattan Beach, California; and great-granddaughter Gray Bridget Kaplan of South Boston. She was predeceased by her husband, her sister Georgia Sawyier, and brothers Anthony and Stephen Pappas.

Burial in Springfield will be private. A memorial service is being planned. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations in Freida's memory to the Epilepsy Foundation, 8301 Professional Place East, Suite 200, Landover, MD 20785-2353 (epilepsyfoundation.org) or Salt Pond Areas Bird Sanctuaries, P.O. Box 535, West Falmouth, MA 02574 (saltpondsanctuaries.org). Arrangements and online guest book under care of Bartlett Funeral Home,