Priscilla (White) Dunn (2010)

WHITE, DUNN, ROBBINS, BARRY

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 5/3/2011 at 10:05:32

Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, CA.
January 30, 2011

PRISCILLA WHITE DUNN,

September 11, 1920 – December 4, 2010

Died peacefully, aged 90, in Oakland, CA, with family attending. Daughter of Paul and Alma White, she grew up in Davenport, Iowa.

After receiving her B.A. In Sociology, she served in the Red Cross during WW II in England and performed social work in NY city. She moved to Los Angeles in 1946 when the man who had “fired” her as his secretary years earlier, the late Lloyd W. Dunn, advertising executive and later vice president of Capitol Records, asked her to marry him.

Priscilla was known by her many friends as a charming hostess, an activist in many organizations, and for her courage and adaptability in the face of the encroaching blindness that began in her mid-30s.

She is survived by her three sons, Jeffrey, Stephen and Jonathan, a grandson, Robin, her daughter-in-law, Susan, and her sister, Patricia Barry. A private memorial reception will be held February 19th in Beverly Hills.

Transcriber's note: Cremains were interred in the Winterset, Iowa cemetery.