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Valerie Louise Boyce Bryan, of Mobile, AL, passed away peacefully August 17, 2023.
She was born August 20, 1970, to Louis and the late Donna Boyce.
Valerie went to Wheeling Park H.S. and graduate from Olney Friends School in Barnesville. She was also a graduate of the University of Kentucky, obtaining her Master and PhD in Social Work.
While in college, she worked for the State of Kentucky, as a mitigation specialist, and her caseload was condemned prisoners. She laughed that she drove a state vehicle with a bullet hole in it. Upon graduation, she taught at UK for a few years then moved to Mobile and taught at the University of South Alabama.
She is the author and co-author of several books, some that are used as textbooks at Universities today.
She is survived by her husband, Steve Bryan; her sisters, Melanie Boyce of Wheeling, Marcie Fortun and her husband Justin of Pittsburgh, and Leslie O'Grady and her husband Timothy, Sr., and brother Robert Caldwell (Judy Jobb), both of Shadyside, Ohio, and her father Louis of Wheeling. She leaves may friends and followers of her culinary expertise on Facebook and the cats she loves dearly.
A memorial will be held at a later date.