Ann Henderson Cory

CORY, Ann Henderson, 73, of Greenville, N.C., died August 15, 2010, in St. Augustine, Fla. Ann is survived by her husband, Joseph G. Cory; two sons, Fred Joseph Cory of Raleigh, N.C., and John Ward Cory of Scottsdale, Ariz.; two grandchildren, Daniel Joseph Cory and James Everett Cory; three sisters, Mary Douglas Henderson Buchanan of Tallahassee, Fla., Martha Henderson Maguire of Murrietta, Calif., and Jane Henderson Barron of Tallahassee. She was preceded in death by her two children, daughter, Sarah Ann Cory, and son, James Anthony Cory; and father and mother, John Ward and Annie Belle Anthony Henderson. Ann was raised in Tallahassee, graduated from Leon High School, received a Bachelor of Science degree from Randolph Macon Woman' s College, now Randolph College, of Lynchburg, Va., and received a master' s degree from Mount Holyoke College of South Hadley, Mass. She was a research assistant at Southern Research in Birmingham, Ala., before doing doctoral work in biochemistry at Florida State University. After her marriage in 1963, she was a housewife, had four children, taught chemistry at Hillsborough Community College and was a research associate at the Shriner Children' s Hospital in Tampa. After relocating to Greenville, N.C., with her husband, she was a research associate in the department of biochemistry at the Brody School of Medicine, and continued her scientific work until she retired in December 2009. To her credit are over 35 articles in peer-review scientific journals and multiple chapters in biochemistry text books, the most recent of which is "The Textbook of Biochemistry with Clinical Correlations". A funeral service will take place at Garden of Memories Chapel in Tampa. A memorial service will be conducted at the Catholic Student Center in Greenville, N.C., at a later date. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial contributions be made to St. Jude Children' s Research Hospital, 332 North Lauderdale, Memphis, TN 38105, or www.stjude.org.