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Subject: Judy SCHNEIDER (1926-2005) (obit.)
Date: 25 May 2005 20:53:26 -0600
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Judy Schneider
Longtime Davis resident Judy Schneider died March 15, 2005, in Davis. She was 78 years old.
A memorial service will begin at 1 p.m. Saturday, March 26, at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Davis, 27074 Patwin Road.
Born in Syracuse, N.Y., in 1926, she grew up in Hollywood where her mother worked for Universal Studios as an executive assistant and assistant producer. Her father was head of foreign film distribution at RKO.
When she was 5, while on a boat ride to Catalina Island with her mother, they became separated. Her mother was astonished to find her daughter dancing on the deck with fellow passenger Clark Gable. As a teenager, she baby-sat for neighbor Frank Sinatra's daughter, Nancy. She remembered Sinatra singing his baby daughter to sleep before departing for the evening.
She attended UCLA and graduated from UC Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in English in 1947. Following graduation, she worked in the advertising department of the Oakland Post Enquirer. She then worked for Robert Sproul, president of UC Berkeley, doing research and writing.
In 1950, she married Irving Robert Schneider, a plant virologist. They moved to Urbana, Ill., and then to Silver Spring, Md., where she was an active volunteer with the League of Women Voters and the Unitarian Universalist Church of Silver Spring. She worked for equal opportunity housing and, as a result of her opposition to the Vietnam War, participated in many anti-war marches with fellow members of the Unitarian Church.
She received a master's degree in library science from the University of Maryland in 1970. As part of her graduate school experience, she catalogued a rare book collection at the John Innes Institute in Norwich, England, a center for botanical research. She was a librarian at the National Parks and Conservation Association in Washington, D.C., and the Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission in Silver Spring.
Following her husband's retirement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Beltsville, Md., he was awarded a scientific research fellowship at UC Davis, where they moved in 1979. She volunteered in the library at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Davis and at the UC Davis Arboretum, where she worked as a docent. Giving tours of the section of California native plants was a favorite of hers. She received a volunteer of the year award in 1995 for her work in the Arboretum.
She was remembered as an accomplished seamstress who made many of her own skirts and dresses, as well as clothes for her husband and daughter. She also was described as an excellent cook. The family remembers her full talents being unleashed at Christmas, with homemade ornaments and decorations, as well as pannetone, biscotti, shortbread, pfefferneuse and stollen.
Her family says she enjoyed taking classes in folk dancing and exercise, and was an enthusiastic traveler. She often took continuing education courses in art history at UC Davis. Among her favorites was a class taught by Wayne Thiebaud. After her husband's death, she continued to travel, journeying to Japan, China, Costa Rica, the Galapagos, Italy and Turkey.
Following her diagnosis with atypical Parkinson's syndrome in 2000, she moved to the University Retirement Community, where she continued her interests through reading and impressed many with her intellectual curiosity, humor and interest in other people.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Irving Robert Schneider, in 1988.
She is survived by her daughter, Karen Schneider of Washington, D.C.; and a brother, Del Reisman of Los Angeles.
Contributions in her memory can be made to Yolo Hospice and the UC Davis Arboretum.
(Obituary from the "The Davis Enterprise," Friday, March 18, 2005, (Yolo County, California). 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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