Harvard Memorials: Remembering the life, death and legacy of Brenda Powell
Brenda Joyce Venable Powell Brenda Joyce Venable Powell, who channeled her powers of observation and empathy into a doctorate in sociology and then into informing and repeatedly transforming herself as a wife, mother, scholar, university administrator, martial artist, novelist, and journal chronicler, died on June 3rd at her home in the Columbia, South Carolina suburb of Lexington at the age of 69. The cause was ovarian cancer, said her husband Burnele Venable Powell, Professor Emeritus of...
