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Susan B. Komen’s Nancy Brinker Slept Here When She Lived in Dallas. Old Preston Hollow, Of Course, In a Home Come Full Circle

Written by Candy Evans on February 4, 2012

I have this thing about homes and real estate, obviously. Not only do I like to know the stories inside every house — the tales of the sale — I also like to know the house behind prominent people. Like Nancy Goodman Leitstein Brinker. She has really been in the news lately, with the controversy over abortion funding/non-funding/maybe-funding of breast exams at her org, the Susan B. Komen Foundation, arguably one of the most powerful charities of the 20th century. It was named for her sister who died of breast cancer. Nancy is a breast cancer survivor. Brinker is being cast as a Dallas gal, though she was really born in Peoria, Illinois, which is south of Chicago and considered “downstate”. Her father was a commercial real estate developer there, Marvin L. Goodman. Continue reading →