Alice C. Brown Of Quogue Dies October 5

Alice C. Brown, known as “Dede,” of Quogue and Essex, Connecticut, died on October 5 in Essex. She was 85.

Born on February 27, 1929, in Orange, New Jersey, to Moreau Delano Brown and Alice Cordelia Barbour, she attended the Ethel Walker School, graduating in 1947, and Smith College, class of 1951. She spent her entire career at Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. of New York, from which she retired, as one of the first female vice presidents, in 1989.

Ms. Brown was a member of the Cosmopolitan Club, the Blue Hill Troupe, Ltd., and the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City. She was also a member of the American Contract Bridge Club, the Quogue Beach Club, the Westhampton Presbyterian Church and the Quogue Field Club, for which she was the first female treasurer, a post she held for more than 10 years.

Her passions included spending time with friends and family and at the beach, playing bridge—she was a Bronze Life Master—tennis, skiing and travel. She was a dedicated volunteer, serving as the first woman to become a president of the Blue Hill Troupe, Ltd., in 1975, an organization she had joined in 1956 and was currently serving as honorary chair. As a member of the Cosmopolitan Club for nearly 30 years, she served on many committees: as first vice president on the Board of Governors from 2000 to 2003, treasurer on the Board of Governors from 1996 to 1999, Classes Committee treasurer from 2008 to 2010, and on the Bridge Committee from 2010 to 2013, the Building Committee, the Nominating Committee, the Audit Committee and the Website Committee.

Ms. Brown is survived by two nephews, Thomas G. Brown of Nevada and Adam H. Brown of Maryland; and a niece, Elizabeth Brown Warters of Virginia.

Funeral services will be held on November 8, at 2 p.m. at Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in Manhattan.

Memorial donations may be made to the Blue Hill Troupe Fund, P.O. Box 286800, Yorkville Station, New York, NY 10128; the Essex Meadows Employees Fund, 30 Bokum Road, Essex, CT 06426; the Ethel Walker School, Fund for Walker’s, Development Office, The Ethel Walker School, 230 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury, CT 06070; or Smith College, The Smith Fund, P.O. Box 340029, Boston, MA 02241–0429.