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Amarillo Globe News 30 April 1998

Brown, Lucy Grace 

Lucy Grace Wright Brown, 90, of Amarillo, died Tuesday, April 21, 1998.

Memorial services will be at 3 p.m. Friday in St. Andrew's Episcopal 
Church Children's Chapel with the Rev. Elizabeth Parker, associate to the 
rector, officiating. Arrangements are by Boxwell Brothers Funeral 
Directors, 2820 Virginia Circle.

Mrs. Brown was born in Lahoma, Okla. She earned a bachelor's degree in 
chemistry from Southwestern College in Kansas and completed her dietetic 
residency at Cook County Hospital in Chicago. She received a bachelor's 
degree from Oklahoma City University.

She was a registered dietitian in Illinois, Ohio, Kansas and Oklahoma. She 
served as president of the Oklahoma City Dietetic Association in 1944 and 
of the Oklahoma Dietetic Association in 1946.

Mrs. Brown served on a civil defense committee during the Korean War while 
working at East Central State College. She later was the director of food 
service for the 10 Appalachian Regional Hospitals in Kentucky, Tennessee 
and West Virginia.

After retiring in 1972, she moved to Amarillo. She taught classes at 
Amarillo College and was a docent at the Amarillo Art Center. In 1983, she 
served as the senior docent coordinator.

Mrs. Brown volunteered at Wolflin Elementary School's library, Faith City 
Mission and St. Andrew's Saint's Closet. She also volunteered for more 
than 3,000 hours at RSVP.

She was a member of the Panhandle Dietetic Association and in 1996 was 
honored by them as a 50-year member. She was a member of St. Andrew's 
Episcopal Church, United Methodist Women at Polk Street United Methodist 
Church, Esther McCrory Chapter of the Daughters of the American 
Revolution, High Plains Scottish Heritage Society and the Amarillo Senior 
Citizens Association's Swinging Seniors.

She married Guy M. Woodson in 1933 at Chicago. They divorced in 1947. She 
married John Graham Brown in 1954 at Baltimore. He died in 1963.

Survivors include a daughter, Gwen Fraze of Amarillo; two sisters, Pauline 
Clark and Charlene Schafer, both of Tulsa, Okla.; and four grandchildren.

The family requests no flowers. They suggest memorials be to CARE, UNICEF, 
Meals for Millions or the St. Andrew's Episcopal Church building fund.
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