NEW CANAAN, CONN Zula Crichton-Brigham passed peacefully on March 2, 2011, in Connecticut. Born in Colorado, she graduated from Northwestern University in Chicago with a degree in Music in 1940. Her love of music infused every aspect of her rich, long life. Later that year she married her childhood sweetheart, John Henderson Crichton, an advertising man. Mr. Crichton, then President of the American Association of Advertising Agencies, died in 1977. A gifted pianist, she tirelessly advocated for creative arts education in public schools and the improvement of libraries. She served as a Trustee of the Bryant Library in Roslyn, Long Island, and a Board member of the New Canaan Library; appropriate for a lifelong bibliophile. In her sixties she became an enthusiastic volunteer teacher of English as a second language and worked to reduce adult illiteracy. She was always dashing off to a lecture or a study group. A resident of New Canaan, Connecticut for more than fifty years, she served as an Elder of the First Presbyterian Church. She and Georges Brigham, a technical consultant and the founder and chairman of the APL Group, were joyously married there on December 6, 1997. She is survived by her sister, Mrs. Jean Sayre; her husband, Georges Brigham; three children, Kimberly, Douglas and Catherine Crichton; five grandchildren and two great-grandsons. Her eldest son, the author Michael Crichton, died in 2008. Her birthday this year, April 24, 2011, is Easter Sunday. Peace. A memorial service will be held for Zula Crichton-Brigham on Saturday, March 26, at the First Presbyterian Church of New Canaan, at 2:00 p.m., followed by a reception at Bliss House. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to UNICEF, at US Fund for UNICEF, 125 Maiden Lane, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10038.
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