Kathleen Price Bryan
(1900-1984)
Kathleen Marshall Clay Price Bryan (April 23, 1900 – August 6, 1984) was an American heiress and philanthropist. She founded the Junior League of Greensboro, North Carolina in 1926. Along with her husband, Joseph M. Bryan, she was an active philanthropist in North Carolina. Bryan was a patron of United Way, Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church, the Diplomatic Reception Rooms of the Department of State, and Duke University. Following her death, the Kathleen Price Bryan Family Fund was established to provide grants to various North Carolina organizations.
Early life and family
Bryan was born Kathleen Marshall Clay Price on April 23, 1900, in Greensboro, North Carolina to Julian Price, an insurance executive who developed the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company, and Ethel Clay Price, a socialite and retired nurse. Her father was Baptist and her mother was Catholic. Bryan was the granddaughter of Colonel Henry de Boisfeuillet Clay, a U.S. Infantry officer and Civil War veteran.
Philanthropy
On May 26, 1926, Bryan, along with nine of her friends from book club, selected a group of twenty-four additional young women to form the Greensboro Charity League. Their first meeting was at the Blue Room in the O. Henry Hotel.
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