Patricia Bragg is an American businesswoman, author, and health consultant. She serves as the nominal head of Bragg Live Food Products and Books, and Chairperson of the Bragg Health Institute.
[ Alternatively: "mauitime.com/culture/in-the-name-of-the-father-part-2". Also see "Patricia Bragg: Born to do her father's work - New Hope 360" (on-line interview, Natural Food Merchandiser magazine, 8/24/2008).]
Patricia Bragg was born as Patricia Pendleton in
Oakland, California
Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States. A major West Coast of the United States, West Coast port, Oakland is the largest city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, the third ...
on April 29, 1929, daughter of Harry Clay Pendleton (1874–1961), a building contractor, and Nettie (née Coward) Deacon Pendleton (1898–1964). Bragg was raised in
Piedmont, California
Piedmont is a small city located in Alameda County, California, United States, completely surrounded by the city of Oakland. Its residential population was 11,270 at the 2020 census. The name comes from the region of Piedmont in Italy, and it me ...
where she attended both grammar school and high school. She graduated from Mary Wallace School, a private Piedmont high school for girls, in June 1947.
After finishing high school, she attended the
University of California, Berkeley
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for two years. In an interview published in the ''
Santa Barbara News-Press'' on March 8, 2011, Bragg said she graduated from that institution with a "bachelor's degree in biochemistry".
On April 19, 1952, Patricia Pendleton and Robert E. Bragg (1922–1993) married at the
First Presbyterian Church in
Phoenix, Arizona
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.
[Maricopa County, AZ Recorder Book 123, Page 602.] The marriage did not last long and they divorced in 1957, in
Los Angeles County,
California
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. Prior to and following their divorce proceedings, Bragg assisted her former father-in-law,
Paul C. Bragg, with his health crusades. She later appeared on his ''Health & Happiness'' TV show, which ran from September 1959 to an unknown date on
Channel 9, KHJ-TV, in Los Angeles, CA. She is attributed as a co-author of many of the later Bragg health books.
References
External links
Braggs Website
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1929 births
Living people
American women in business
People from Piedmont, California
University of California alumni
21st-century American women