Mary Scranton

Mary Lowe Scranton (April 27, 1918 – December 26, 2015) was an American consultant, community advocate and academic trustee. She served as the First Lady of Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1967 during the administration of her husband, William Scranton, the 38th Governor of Pennsylvania and 1964 U.S. presidential candidate. She focused on housing and community affairs issues in Northeastern Pennsylvania after her tenure as Pennsylvania's First Lady. She graduated from Scranton Country Day School and the Masters School, a private boarding school located in Dobbs Ferry, New York. In 1940, Chamberlin received her degree from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. The Scranton family was the namesake her hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania.

First Lady Mary Scranton opposed an idea to relocate the official Pennsylvania Governor's Residence to a proposed penthouse apartment, which would have been located within the old Executive Office Building, which was the original home of the State Museum of Pennsylvania until 1964, on the grounds of the Pennsylvania State Capitol Complex.

In 1975, Scranton was appointed to the board of trustees for California Institute of Technology, becoming the first woman to be named to Caltech's board. Her husband, former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton, had died in 2013 following 71 years of marriage.

Mary Scranton died from complications of Alzheimer's disease at the Casa Dorinda retirement community in Montecito, California, on December 26, 2015, at the age of 97. She was survived by her four children - Susan Scranton Dawson, former Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania William Scranton III, Joseph C. Scranton, and Peter K. Scranton - and their families. Governor Tom Wolf ordered flags be lowered to half staff in Scranton's honor until January 3, 2016.