Mrs. Mary Stone Brodish

Mary Helen Stone Brodish, 86, passed away peacefully, surrounded by her family on Thursday, November 7. Mary was born to the late Charles Henry Stone II and Elizabeth Comly Hoopes Stone in Coatesville, Pennsylvania on April 28, 1927. From an early age she excelled in the arts and sciences. She graduated from George School and then Wellesley College in 1948. She went on to study art history at New York University where she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for study abroad in Italy and earned a Masters in Art History. After graduation, she worked briefly for the art history program at Duke University, before entering a nursing program at Yale University, where she received the MSN degree. It was at Yale where she first met her husband. Mary and Alvin were married in the summer of 1957. She practiced nursing at Yale University Medical School where her husband served on faculty. After delaying her career to raise her young children as a stay-at-home mom, she restarted her career and served on the faculties of the University of Cincinnati and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She educated hundreds of student nurses and received several awards for teaching excellence in maternity and neonatal nursing. She was instrumental in developing the nursing research program at UNC-G. Mary was warm and caring and always strived to see good in everyone she met. She was active in her community in the Old Meadowbrook neighborhood and traveled extensively with her husband. She enjoyed music , was a loyal supporter of the Winston-Salem Symphony and she was a longtime active volunteer for the organization Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN). Mary was a voracious reader and gifted at needlepoint, quilting and knitting. She loved the outdoors, especially long summer walks at the beach and spring and fall walks along the trails of Tanglewood Park with her golden retrievers, Winnie and later Abbie. Mary is survived by her husband of 56 years, Alvin of Clemmons, son and his wife David and Freda Brodish of Youngsville, son and his wife Paul and Susan Brodish of Carrboro, daughter and her husband, Joan and Dan Binkley of Winston-Salem, and son and his wife Brian and Barbara Brodish of Greenville, and 9 grandchildren (all boys!) who loved her dearly. She was preceded in death by her parents, sisters Anne and Betty, and brother Charles. The family would like to thank the Hospice & Palliative Care Center of Winston-Salem. A private ceremony for the family is planned for Tanglewood Park in North Carolina in November 2013 and at the Buck and Doe Run Conservation Area in Pennsylvania in April 2014. Memorials may be made to the Forsyth Humane Society of North Carolina or the Buck and Doe Trust of Pennsylvania.