Marion Turner Stubbs

Juilliard School Sorbonne University Marion Turner Stubbs (January 18, 1910 – March 25, 1994) was an African American concert pianist and clubwoman.

[1] Her parents were Marion C. and John Patrick Turner, a surgeon and the first Black member of the Philadelphia Board of Education.

[3][9][7] At her debut recital on April 22, 1931, The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote that she "played an exacting and diversified programme with much technical skill and excellent tone".

[14] Jack and Jill grew into an important youth-focused civic organization that includes 252 chapters in the United States and Germany, as of 2023.

[6][13] Marion Turner married Frederick Douglass Stubbs, a thoracic surgeon, on June 7, 1934.

[6][15] Dr. Stubbs was one of the first African Americans to graduate from the Harvard Medical School and became the head of the surgery department at the Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and Training School and chief chest surgeon at the Philadelphia General Hospital.

[8] Marion Turner Stubbs Thomas died in Columbia, Maryland on March 25, 1994, after a stroke.