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Subject: [CAYolo] Helen Frances Miller OLMO (1918-2000) (obit.)
Date: 5 Aug 2002 12:40:16 -0600

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Helen F.M. Olmo

Helen Frances Miller Olmo, a longtime Davis resident, died of natural causes May 17, 2000. Born in Fresno on Dec. 31, 1918, she was 81.

She and her family moved to Davis in 1919 when her father, John D. Miller Jr. accepted a teaching position in the department of agricultural engineering at UC Davis. Her mother, Frances Marie Flack Miller, was a Nebraska school teacher who endowed her daughter with compassion and charity for the needy.

She advanced in the Davis school system from kindergarten to high school, graduating in the class of 1937, a group notable for its fellowships and reunions.

Growing up in the home alongside the university, she enrolled in home economics and clothing design courses. In later years, when queried how she got her Ph.D., she replied, "The easy way. I married mine.''

On Sept. 20, 1939, she married Harold Paul Olmo, a young instructor who was hired to teach viticulture at UC Davis under the guidance of Professor A.J. Winkler.

She was instrumental in providing hospitality to many students and academics from foreign countries. Opportunities to visit many grape-growing countries of the world resulted from extended visits that kept life and vistas enjoyable for her family and friends.

Her most enjoyable hobby in latter days had been family genealogy, assisting interested friends and serving as voluntary help in libraries and at the Davis Senior Center.

As a convert to Catholicism, she was active in the women's organization of the St. James Parish Hall and its refurbishing from an old military barracks.

She is survived by her husband, Harold Paul Olmo, professor emeritus of viticulture in the department of viticulture and enology at UC Davis; two brothers, John Dow Miller of Sunnyvale and Charles Richard Miller of Woodland; three children, Paul Stephen Olmo, Jeanne-Marie Olmo and Daniel Martin Olmo; six grandchildren; and four great-granddaughters.

A memorial mass will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at St. James Catholic Church, 200 W. 14th St. in Davis, followed by a reception in the Parish Hall.

Memorial donations can be directed to Yolo Hospice or to the donor's favorite charity.

(Obituary from the "The Davis Enterprise," the week of May 14, 2000, (Yolo County). Submitted with the permission of the "The Davis Enterprise," 315 G Street, Davis, CA 95616, <http://www.davisenterprise.com/>;. Please note: I am not related to the family listed above, and I do not have any further information on this family.)

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