Natalie Tempe Brown died at home in Vass, NC on December 14, 2021 after 6 years of an incredibly courageous battle against cancer. Her family and friends are grateful for the additional years together after her initial diagnosis and admire her strength through so many treatments.
Born Natalie Tempe Slominski on December 25, 1958 in Jacksonville, NC while her father served in the Korean War, Tempe lived in many states and countries like most children of career military officers. She began her high school years in Carlisle, PA but received her graduation diploma from the Teheran American School in Iran in 1976. Tempe completed her undergraduate college degree at Penn State University in 1980, received her Master’s Degree in Pharmacology from UNC Chapel Hill in 1991, and completed her PHD (Doctorate in Pharmacology) studies in 2011 from Shenandoah University. Natalie Tempe worked in both the retail and hospital sides of pharmacy in both Virginia and North Carolina.
Tempe’s love of all animals, especially dogs, cats, donkeys and horses, found her surrounded by a variety of rescues and breeds her whole adult life. Thrown into the horse world when her sister was injured in a riding accident in 1972, Tempe took over the care of the family horse and became a life long equestrian. She competed as an Adult Amateur in 3 Day Eventing with her “Thorough-dales” and OTTBs, and loved trail riding (especially in the Moss Foundation with all the jumps available) and at Moses Cone in Blowing Rock, NC. Tempe truly appreciated the friends who took to the trails with her!
Natalie Tempe was predeceased by her parents Colonel Martin John Slominski and Maggie Adele Slominski of Southern Pines, NC. She is survived by her husband Jim Brown, brothers Colonel Martin W. Slominski, Gregory E. Slominski and Brig. General Mark V. Slominski (Nikki Slominski), and her sister Dee Charbonnet (Rip Charbonnet). Tempe loved family reunions with her nieces and nephews Nadia and Elena Slominski, Ian, Eric and Maggie Charbonnet, Wyatt, Logan and Derek Slominski and Joel and Zac Slominski.
No Services will be held.
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