Cecile Trescott Bromery, wife of the late Randolph W. “Bill” Bromery who was chancellor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and president of Springfield College, passed away Thursday, January 21 at her residence at Brooksby Village Senior Living community due to complications associated with COVID-19. She was 95 years old.

Born on August 14, 1925 in Charleston, SC to Clarence B. and Bernice Smith Trescott, the former Cecile Alma Trescott graduated from Avery Normal School in her hometown and attended Howard University in Washington, D.C., graduating in 1947 with a bachelor’s degree in sociology. It was at Howard where she met her future husband, Randolph Wilson Bromery of Cumberland, MD, who also attended the university.

They were married on June 8, 1947 in Washington, D.C., where they resided for the next twenty years. They were parents to five children:  Keith of Fort Lauderdale, FL, Carol Thompson of Baltimore, MD, Dennis of Amherst, MA, David of Ellicott City, MD, and Christopher of Marblehead, MA. Dr. Bromery passed away in 2013. Mrs. Bromery also leaves behind her brother Clarence Trescott of Talladega, AL, a brother-in-law Robert Bromery of Bowie, MD, and many nieces and nephews.

Mrs. Bromery moved with her family to Amherst, MA in June of 1967, when Dr. Bromery accepted a position as a faculty member in the Geology Department at UMass. He formerly worked as an exploration geophysicist for the U.S. Geological Survey in Washington, D.C.

While she devoted most of her adult life to homemaking and child rearing, Mrs. Bromery was also a loving partner in a marriage that endured for more than 60 years and an engaging grandmother to 11 grandchildren and great grandmother to 5 great-grandchildren.

Due to the current pandemic, memorial services for Mrs. Bromery will be scheduled at a later date.  Donations in her memory may be made to these funds at the University of Massachusetts:

Randolph and Cecile Bromery Endowment Fund for the Du Bois Center

https://securelb.imodules.com/s/1640/alumni/index.aspx?sid=1640&gid=2&pgid=443&cid=1121&dids=2035

Randolph W. Bromery Fund for Geosciences

https://securelb.imodules.com/s/1640/alumni/index.aspx?sid=1640&gid=2&pgid=443&cid=1121&dids=457

Memorial guestbook at www.douglassfuneral.com