Margaret (Gardner) Bryan |
| Posted 2009-07-17 by Judy Wight Branson |
| The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, California Saturday, April 11, 1998 A celebration in memory of Margaret Gardner Bryan, whose 60-year career as an educator included time at Riverside Community College, will be at 1 p.m. April 19 at the University of California, Riverside, Botanic Gardens. She was 85. Mrs. Bryan died of cancer Feb. 11 at her Riverside home. Interment was private. Mrs. Bryan, who was born April 23, 1912 in Prescott, Ariz., lived in Riverside for 31 years. She taught high school English and college-level English as a second language in Asia and in the United States. She taught English as a second language part time at the Riverside college for 26 years before she retired in 1996. She previously taught at what was then Long Beach State College and at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa. She taught abroad while her late husband, J. Y. Bryan, was a cultural attache in the U. S. Information Service in various countries, including the Philippines, India, Iran and Pakistan. Mrs. Bryan graduated cum laude with an English degree from the University of Arizona in Tucson in 1933 and a master's degree in English literature from UCLA in 1954. She was active in PEO Sisterhood Chapter HO in Riverside, an organization dedicated to providing educational opportunities for women. She belonged to the group for 50 years. She was a member of First Congregational Church in Riverside. Mrs. Bryan enjoyed reading and also walks and picnics at the Botanic Gardens. At the time of her death, she was writing a manuscript about overcoming obstacles that her family and son, Joel, encountered when polio left him a quadriplegic. She is survived by two daughters, Donna of Goleta and Kirsten of Moss Beach; two sons, Joel of Davis and Guy of Riverside, Calif.; five grandchildren; and two brothers, Robert Gardner of Jerome, Ariz. and William Gardner of Palos Verdes, Calif. The family suggests memorial contributions to the PEO Educational Loan Fund, in care of Christine Heller, PO Box 1099, Alhambra, 91801-1099, or to the Riverside Hospice. |
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