Lucia Brown Dudley

After a brief illness, Lucia Brown Dudley died peacefully on Saturday, June 20, at Heron Point Community, Chestertown, MD, following several days of meaningful visits with her loving family and many friends including the caring staff of Heron Point. Lucia was born in Boston, MA,on August 28, 1927, first child of Daniel Lucius Brown and Bettina True Brown (nee Savage). She graduated from Milton Academy, and, at age 15, placed first in Vermont’s 100-mile horseback trail ride, a considerable feat still today. Eager for a new horizon, she attended Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA, and received a B.A in 1949 with a major in French. Over the years, Lucia traveled intrepidly touring the country and the world accompanied by family and friends. She enjoyed collecting art “what is attractive and pleasing.” For twenty years, she summered with her parents, siblings, and children in Duxbury, MA, residing in their beloved "Cable House." Since the 1990's, Lucia raised and trained Portuguese Water Dogs and handled her favorites, Salty and Rosie, to blue ribbons in regional and national trials and thoroughly enjoyed the lively camaraderie of her fellow dog lovers. As a mother, Lucia was patient, generous, supportive, insightful, and always encouraged her children and grandchildren to be presentable, honorable, and respectful of others. She endowed them with the virtues of fairness and service to others, exemplified by her many decades of involvement in charities, churches, museums, and social service agencies. For her entire life, Lucia was a loyal friend to many and particularly devoted to long-time confidantes, Nancy Eills, Mary Rose Markowitz, the late Lucille Gaigngault, and Eleanor Hoisington, with whom she shared a monthly luncheon in various undisclosed locations. Lucia is preceded in death by her husbands, William L. Lewis, H. Kempton Hastings, and Frank S. Dudley, as well as sister, Betsy Brown Bower. She is survived by a brother, Eric Brown (Lynn) Dataw Island, SC; sister, Deborah Brown Burklund of Ridgefield, CT; six children, Daniel Lewis of Centreville, MD; Cindy Usilton (Glenn) of Tavers, FL: Leverett Lewis (Amanda) of Sebastian, FL; Diana Abbott (Mark) of Northfield MN; Brewster Hastings (Pamela) of Abington, PA; and Eric Hastings of Duluth, MN; eight grandchildren Amity, Grace, Alexander, Sarah, Christopher, Sophia, Max, Maegan; as well as seven stepchildren and their families. A Liturgy of Remembrance and Thanksgiving will be celebrated at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Centerville, MD, on Monday, July 13 at 11 am. Burial will be private. The family suggests memorial donations be given to Crossroads Community Inc, 120 Banjo Lane, Centreville, MD, 21617.

Lucia Brown Dudley

August 28, 1927 - June 20, 2015