Davis Enterprise (Davis, California)
Tuesday, March 11, 2003
Longtime Davis resident Kathleen Allen Douglas died on March 4, 2003, at UC Davis Medical Center from complications following a stroke. She was 92 years old.
She was born Aug. 3, 1910, to Harry O. and Clara Allen and lived the first few years of her life in Allenville, Wis., on the dairy farm that has been in her family since the 1840s.
She went to Oshkosh Teachers College. Art age 19, she rode a train to the West Coast and finished her studies at UCLA. She met James R. Douglas in California and they married in 1934.
She was a career kindergarten teacher. Before and during World War II, while her husband was in the Navy, she taught in San Diego and Richmond. When one school year started, she had more than 100 students in class.
She and her husband settled in Davis after the war. In her early years at Central Davis Elementary, she taught many of the children in Davis. She went on to teach at West Davis, Valley Oak, Birch Lane and Pioneer. She remembered many of her students for the rest of her life. She retired in 1972.
She was married for 45 years to James R. Douglas, who was a professor of parasitology at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. They traveled extensively and lived in New Zealand, Taiwan, Chile and Florida.
She had a keen sense of humor. Besides travel, she enjoyed bridge; playing the piano; attending concerts; reading mystery novels; throwing parties for friends; meeting with The Brown Baggers, a group of retired Pioneer Elementary School teachers; and watching her grandchildren and great-grandchildren grow up. She lived briefly at Covell Gardens in Davis before her death.
She was preceded in death by her husband, James R. Douglas, in 1980. She is survived by her daughter, Kathy Whitmire and her husband Dave of Davis; son, Jim Douglas and his wife Sasha Harmon of Seattle; grandchildren, Leigh Whitmire and Brian Whitmire of Davis, Jennifer Grocock and her husband Jamie of Rocklin and Owen Douglas of Chicago; great-grandchildren, Makena and Jacob Sherwood of Davis; and siblings, Barbara Thiex and John Allen of Neenah, Wis., Peter Allen of Oshkosh, Wis., and Furman Allen of Columbus, Ohio.
There will be no funeral. Friends are invited to a memorial gathering at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 17, at Tandem Properties, 3500 Anderson Road, near F Street in Davis. Remembrances may be sent to the Davis Art Center, 1919 F St., Davis, CA 95616 or to the Food Bank of Yolo County, 1244 Fortna Ave., Woodland, CA 95776.
[source: GenealogyBank.com]
Davis Enterprise (Davis, California)
Tuesday, March 11, 2003
Longtime Davis resident Kathleen Allen Douglas died on March 4, 2003, at UC Davis Medical Center from complications following a stroke. She was 92 years old.
She was born Aug. 3, 1910, to Harry O. and Clara Allen and lived the first few years of her life in Allenville, Wis., on the dairy farm that has been in her family since the 1840s.
She went to Oshkosh Teachers College. Art age 19, she rode a train to the West Coast and finished her studies at UCLA. She met James R. Douglas in California and they married in 1934.
She was a career kindergarten teacher. Before and during World War II, while her husband was in the Navy, she taught in San Diego and Richmond. When one school year started, she had more than 100 students in class.
She and her husband settled in Davis after the war. In her early years at Central Davis Elementary, she taught many of the children in Davis. She went on to teach at West Davis, Valley Oak, Birch Lane and Pioneer. She remembered many of her students for the rest of her life. She retired in 1972.
She was married for 45 years to James R. Douglas, who was a professor of parasitology at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. They traveled extensively and lived in New Zealand, Taiwan, Chile and Florida.
She had a keen sense of humor. Besides travel, she enjoyed bridge; playing the piano; attending concerts; reading mystery novels; throwing parties for friends; meeting with The Brown Baggers, a group of retired Pioneer Elementary School teachers; and watching her grandchildren and great-grandchildren grow up. She lived briefly at Covell Gardens in Davis before her death.
She was preceded in death by her husband, James R. Douglas, in 1980. She is survived by her daughter, Kathy Whitmire and her husband Dave of Davis; son, Jim Douglas and his wife Sasha Harmon of Seattle; grandchildren, Leigh Whitmire and Brian Whitmire of Davis, Jennifer Grocock and her husband Jamie of Rocklin and Owen Douglas of Chicago; great-grandchildren, Makena and Jacob Sherwood of Davis; and siblings, Barbara Thiex and John Allen of Neenah, Wis., Peter Allen of Oshkosh, Wis., and Furman Allen of Columbus, Ohio.
There will be no funeral. Friends are invited to a memorial gathering at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 17, at Tandem Properties, 3500 Anderson Road, near F Street in Davis. Remembrances may be sent to the Davis Art Center, 1919 F St., Davis, CA 95616 or to the Food Bank of Yolo County, 1244 Fortna Ave., Woodland, CA 95776.
[source: GenealogyBank.com]
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