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Priscilla Grace, 104; took dynamic approach to life

By Stephanie M. Peters

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  January 02, 2012

By the time Priscilla Grace enrolled in Radcliffe College in 1954, she was a widowed mother of four teenagers and nearly 50. Taking a chance wasn’t a new experience, however. As a younger woman, she shunned rites of passage such as debutante balls, college, and marriage in exchange for learning to fly biplanes and diving into Boston Harbor in a submarine. “She really had a much deeper hunger about life,’’ said her son John of Belmont.

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