Luci Gwin biography: 13 things about Brenham, Texas native

Who was Luci Gwin?

Lucille Jane “Luci” Pieper Gwin was a nurse and a painter born in Brenham, Texas, United States to Henry Herman Pieper and Louise Elizabeth Kiemsteadt. Gwin was 1 year younger than her husband Dr. Shannon Horace Gwin.

Luci lost her parents at a young age. She was raised by her siblings after their parents’ deaths.

After graduating high school in Brenham, Luci moved to Galveston, Texas where she was accepted into the cadet-nursing core. She met Shannon while he was a medical student at UTMB.

During World War II, Luci did her nursing training at University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston. After obtaining her license as a registered nurse, she became the head nurse in the surgical unit at John Sealy Hospital in Galveston.

Shannon and Luci lived in Galveston with their four children. Here are 13 more things about her:

1. She has four older brothers namely Henry Clarence Pieper, Theodore Pieper, George William Pieper and Ben Walter Pieper and one older sister named Louise Elizabeth Pieper.
2. After giving birth to her four children, she retired from nursing to raise them and started studying impressionist paintings.
3. In 1932, her mother died.
4. In 1933, her father died.
5. On August 27, 1949, she and Shannon got married. They lived in Galveston.
6. In 1951, she gave birth to Shannon Collier Gwin.
7. In 1952, she gave birth to Hannah Gwin.
8. In 1954, she and her family moved from Galveston to Corpus Christi, Texas and in the same year, she gave birth to Marshall Allen Gwin in Corpus Christi, Texas.
9. In 1956, she gave birth to David Kelly Gwin in Corpus Christi.
10. On October 26, 2000, her son Marshall died after a long battle with liver disease.
11. On February 23, 2007, her husband Shannon died at age 87.
12. On April 21, 2015, she turned 88.
13. On September 16, 2015, she passed away in her home.

Luci’s son Collier owns the Foster-Gwin gallery in San Francisco. On January 9, 2023, he was caught on camera spraying an unhoused woman with a hose near the gallery.

On January 18, 2023, Collier was arrested for misdemeanor battery. On July 10, 2023, a San Francisco judge approved a pretrial diversion agreement for him, which stated the charges filed against him would be dismissed after he volunteered 35 hours at the Third Baptist Church of San Francisco with civil rights champion Rev. Amos C. Brow.