She helped found Anchor Hospital, a treatment facility in Atlanta. She traveled worldwide to lecture and partake in seminars and conferences on addiction treatment. She then earned a master's degree from Georgia State University and held various posts in behavioral care before founding Toni Curry & Associates, a private practice, in 1982.įor five years, she was director of aftercare services at Peachford Hospital and held the same post for an equal number of years at the Ridgeview Institute. Her first husband, Ronald William Curry (now deceased), raised them until she became sober in 1975. Curry lost custody of her three children due to alcohol. South Care Cremation Society and Memorial Centers of Alpharetta is in charge of arrangements. May 17 at Dunwoody United Methodist Church. Toni Vermelle Griffin Curry was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer 18 months ago, and died Thursday from its complications at her home in Sandy Springs.
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