Elizabeth "Libby" Price

Libby (Elizabeth) Price, died December 15, 2014 at Mercy Hospital at the age of 96. She was born in Franklin, IN to Warren J. and Mary Payne Yount. After graduating from Bedford (IN) High School, Libby attended DePauw University in Greencastle, graduating in 1938 with a BA degree in English. At DePauw, she was a Phi Beta Kappa, Theta Sigma Phi, and Kappa Alpha Theta. Later she did graduate work at OU, OSU, and American University. Libby worked for the Stillwater News Press and the Oklahoma Journal, handled publicity for the OKC Symphony and the Mummers Theater and did research for Dr. L. Jolyon West at the Psychiatry Department of OU for a book he was writing about Jack Ruby's involvement in President Kennedy's assassination. She lived briefly in the Washington, D.C. area where she was employed as a technical writer for the National Cancer Institute, Bechtel Power and Vitro Labs. Libby returned to Oklahoma City and worked briefly for the Oklahoma Journal, until it quit publication and free lanced for the Oklahoma Press Association. She started writing The Price Report for The Full Circle Book Store in the 1980's, finishing over 30 volumes. Libby was predeceased by her parents, her ex-husband, Charles E. Price, her brother, James W. Yount in 2010, and her son, Robert W. Price in 2011. Survivors are daughters Nancy Alexander (Howard), Middletown, NJ; Frances Jenkins (Ken), Gaithersburg, MD., and Julie Price, Binger, OK; her sister-in-law Christel Yount, San Diego, CA; grandchildren, Andy Price (Lesa), Ardmore, OK; Leigh Anne Price Bradbury (Jon), Talihina OK, Sarah Price Justus (James) Rush Springs, OK; Michael Alexander (Amanda), West Orange, NJ; Courtney Jenkins, Germantown MD, and her 3 great grandchildren, Jacob Bradbury, Olivia Alexander and Logan Alexander. Libby was well known and appreciated in Oklahoma City arts world for her many articles and reviews. Her passions were reading, plays, movies, music, especially jazz, politics and her beloved Westminster Presbyterian Church choir, where she was a member for 50+ years. She also sang with The Canterbury Choir. She loved the NASA space program and attended several launches Cape Kennedy. A memorial service celebrating her life will be held in the chapel at Westminster Presbyterian Church on March 6, 2015.