Patricia Bragg
| Patricia Bragg | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Patricia Pendleton April 29, 1929 California, Oakland’s Peralta Hospital |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of California, Berkeley |
| Home town | Piedmont, California, United States |
| Spouse(s) |
Robert E. Bragg (m. 1952; div. 1956) James Cameron Gilroy (m. 1976; div. 1976) |
| Parents |
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| Relatives | Paul C. Bragg (ex-father-in-law) |
Patricia Bragg (born Patricia (NMN) Pendleton in Oakland, CA, April 29, 1929) is an American businesswoman, author, and health consultant who is the nominal head of Bragg Live Food Products and Books and Chairperson of the Bragg Health Institute.
Bragg was the daughter of building contractor, Harry Clay Pendleton (1874–1961) and Nettie (née Coward) Deacon Pendleton (1898–1964). She was raised in Piedmont, California. She graduated from the Mary Wallace School, a private Piedmont high school for girls, in June 1947. Her parents divorced on October 1, 1938, (Alameda County, CA Action No. 135796) after a separation of several years. The most recently released Federal Census (1940) shows Patricia Pendleton, at age 10, residing with her mother, Nettie, and two brothers on Pala Avenue in Piedmont, Alameda County, California.
After high school, she attended the University of California, Berkeley for two years , but did not graduate (Cal-Berkeley Alumni database). In an interview with Marilyn McMahon, staff writer, published in the Santa Barbara News-Press on March 8, 2011, Bragg claimed she graduated from that institution with a "bachelor's degree in biochemistry." In the same interview, Bragg stated that her mother died at age 45 in an automobile accident. This confuses the reader because an obituary has been found that says something different. Nettie Pendleton's Oakland Tribune obituary of July 30, 1964, reads ("Mrs. Pendleton, whose death followed a brief illness, is survived by a daughter, Patricia Pendleton Bragg, of Hollywood; and two sons, Harry C. Pendleton, Jr., of Oakland, and Herbert Coward Deacon...." [son by a prior marriage]). Her death certificate documents her cause of death as "Cerebral Metastasis due to Carcinoma L [left] Lung" on July 29, 1964, at age 65. (State of California Certificate of Death ?-0860ll).
On April 19, 1952, Patricia Pendleton and Robert E. Bragg (1922–1993) were married at the First Presbyterian Church of Phoenix, Phoenix, Arizona, . They later divorced, in 1957, in Los Angeles County, California. Prior to & following their divorce proceedings, Bragg assisted her former father-in-law, Paul C. Bragg, with his health crusades, and later appeared on his "Health & Happiness" TV show. The show ran from September 1959 to an unknown date on Channel 9, KHJ-TV, in the Los Angeles, CA, area. She also is the attributed co-author of many of the later Bragg health books.
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