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Nina Cathryn Scott Mabry

Published Wednesday, April 5, 2000 in the Nevada County Picayune

Nina Cathryn Scott Mabry, 76 , died Thursday, March 30, 2000, in Pasadena, Texas.

Mrs. Mabry was born in Prescott April 18, 1923. She graduated from Prescott High School in 1941 and received her bachelor's degree from Henderson State Teacher's College in 1945. She taught at Dyess Colony and worked as a typist for the U.S. Marine Corps in Washington, D.C., during World War II. After that she taught in Prescott, Victoria, Texas, and in Galena Park, Texas. She received her masters of letters degree from the University of Houston and began a lengthy teaching career in the Deer Park, Texas schools. She retired as the social studies department chair at Deer Park Senior High School. Mrs. Mabry was a lifelong Methodist.

Survivors include her husband of 42 years, Alvin Mabry; her son, Bob Mabry; and her daughter, Bonny Cathryn Johnson; a sister, Helen VanderGraff of Houston, Texas, and a brother, Sam Vick Scott Sr. of Hot Springs; and five grandchildren.

Services were held in Deer Park Monday, April 3, at the Deer Park United Methodist Church. Interment was held in Prescott in the DeAnn Cemetery on Tuesday, April 4, under the direction of Shackelford Funeral Home of Prescott.


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