Dr. Doris Brougham Graduates From Life at 98 Years Old

Overseas Radio & Television, Inc. (ORTV) , Studio Classroom and Heavenly Melody Founder, missionary Dr. Doris Brougham, passed away at Mackay Memorial Hospital in Zhuwei on August 6 of multiple organ failure. She was 98 years old. Brougham stated in her will to donate everything she had.

ORTV Board Chairman Dr. Simon Hung said Brougham had graduated from life. She will be buried in Yangmingshan, Taipei. Brougham loved the Chinese-speaking people. She had great faith, and never thought of retiring. Every time she played her trumpet, she would remind the people she met: “Have you got a passport to Heaven?”

Hung expressed that Brougham must be thrilled to be reunited with her parents in Heaven. The the last time she saw them was on a dock in Seattle when she said goodbye 76 years ago to board a steamer for China. She must be also rejoicing with her Lord, who she so faithfully served her entire life. Hung said she was a superb English teacher and a missionary who was steadfast in her vision and never looked back.

ORTV CEO Daniel Hsieh stated that Brougham, who founded Studio Classroom in 1962, and Heavenly Melody Choir in 1963, devoted her life to English teaching and sharing God’s love through music. Thus, ORTV will hold a “Doris Brougham Memorial Concert” to comply with Brougham’s last wish to have a concert in lieu of a traditional memorial service. She loved music, a lively atmosphere, and would want us to be joyful. She said she hoped people who came to her memorial concert would be joyful, because she had gone to Heaven and was reunited with her parents and siblings.

[Doris Brougham Rural Areas Education Project]

ORTV/Studio Classroom/Heavenly Melody will announce the date and venue of the “Doris Brougham Memorial Concert” in the near future.