Marianne Gilchrist Segura, who led fundraising efforts at the League of American Orchestras in the 1980s and early 1990s, first as development director and later as a consultant, died May 19, 2014 at Methodist Hospital in Rochester, Minn.., after a year-and-a-half battle with lung cancer. She was 73. Before coming to the League in early 1985—it was then known as the American Symphony Orchestra League and based in Washington, D.C.—Segura had managed the Rochester (Minn.) Symphony Orchestra, in the city where she and her husband, Dr. Joseph Weston Segura, had resided since 1968. Following her service to the League she consulted for numerous nonprofit organizations including Amnesty International, the Galef Institute, and the Ashoka Foundation; raised money for the Smithsonian Museum of American Art; and devoted herself to such charitable causes as at-risk youth, HIV/AIDS, and a volunteer clothing drive benefiting tribes people of Thailand. She and Dr. Segura, who died in 2006, are survived by their five daughters: Alison, Sarah, Cynthia, Leal, and Felice Segura, and by three grandchildren: Claire and Matthew Friedlander and Madeline Walsh.
Published May 30, 2014
