Lucy Grey Gould died at the age of 88 on Thursday, September 25, after a long illness, surrounded by her family. Lucy was born and raised in Chicago, the child of Marion Griswold Grey, a specialist in deep-sea fishes at the Field Museum in Chicago, and Arthur Lee Grey, a businessman with the Chicago Mill and Lumber Company. Lucy attended Stanford University, graduating with a B.S. in Chemistry in 1958. It was at Stanford that she met Tom Pike, whom she married soon after graduating. Their first daughter, Sarah, and second daughter, Cathy, were born in Palo Alto, California, while Tom was finishing his five-year degree program at Stanford; subsequent moves took them to Princeton, New Jersey, briefly to Highland Park, Illinois, where their son David was born, to Wilmington, Delaware, where their third daughter Lisa was born, and finally to Louisville, Kentucky, in 1968.

Lucy later returned to school, earning her M.D. in 1974 from the University of Louisville Medical School as one of its first ever female students. She also received certifications in psychiatry and child psychiatry. She moved away from Louisville after she and Tom divorced. Lucy practiced as a psychiatrist in Louisville, Rochester, and Ithaca before moving to Chico, California, in 2000 after she retired from medicine.

In 2005 she married longtime Chico resident Richard (“Dick”) Gould. Lucy became very active in the Chico community through Trinity Methodist Church and Chico Friends Meeting (Quakers), and through her work with and support of many Chico community organizations focusing on peace and social justice, including the Chico Peace and Justice Center, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, Chico Interfaith Council, Chico Housing Action Team (CHAT), and Chico’s Martin Luther King Day observation, among others. Lucy also received her certification as a Feldenkrais practitioner and was interested in homeopathic medicine, Qigong and Chinese medicine, Five Rhythms dance, and other types of alternative healing, body work, and movement practices.

Lucy is survived by her husband Dick Gould, her sister Sally Thomason, her children Sarah Pike, Catherine Blake, David Pike, and Lisa Bailey, eight grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by her parents and her brother Peter Grey.

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