Yolo-Sonoma County CA Obituary Project Obituaries.....WARMOTH , Isabel Marie Huntley  July 28 2000
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“Winters Express,” Thursday, August 24, 2000
Isabel Marie Huntley Warmoth

If there were just one word to describe Isabel it would be spirit.  It was a
spirit she inherited from her grandparents who left Maine in the 1860s to settle
on the Mendocino Coast.  Her grandfather arrived as a ship’s officer, and her
grandmother was among the first to travel west on the new transcontinental
railroad.  It was a spirit she called on to comfort and reassure her family that
it was her time when she passed away in Petaluma, California, on July 28, 2000
at the age of 89.

Isabelle Marie Huntley Warmoth was born on June 1, 1911, in San Francisco, a
city still ravaged by the 1906 earthquake.  Her father, Dr. Arthur Corbett
Huntley, met her mother, Maria Francesca Ducker, at the time head nurse at the
German Hospital, as a direct result of the earthquake.

She spent her early years with her late brother, Dr. Arthur Cecil Huntley,
roaming the family ranch at Point Arena, California.  The family also lived
briefly in other Northern California communities, including Winters, where she
graduated from High School in 1928.  In recent years she has continued to
encourage communication among survivors of her graduating class.

In the early days of the Great Depression, women were a rarity in higher
education.  Nonetheless, she aspired to earning a bachelor’s degree in
biochemistry at UC Berkeley, which she did in 1932.

After graduation from UC Berkeley, Isabel started a long career as a laboratory
technician with Drs. Doan, Fry & Wood in Red Bluff, California.  It was here she
met and married LeRoy A. Warmoth and had two sons and a daughter.  They were
later divorced and, as a single parent, Isabel worked to see all three of her
children go on to college.

After moving to Sacramento in 1950, she continued to work as a laboratory
technologist.  She retired from the Woodside Medical Group in her 70s.

At the age of 56, as a result of the gift of a flying lesson from her brother,
she earned her pilot’s license.  She loved flying and continued to refer to
herself as a pilot until the end.

After retiring, she traveled extensively, including trips to Africa and Mexico
to visit her children.  She was active in literacy tutoring and fine china
painting.  Her family will forever treasure the beautifully painted china pieces
she made for them.

Isabel was a feminist who stood up for women’s rights long before Betty Friedan
and Gloria Steinem popularized feminism, and she enlivened many of the family
gatherings with stories of her experiences.  She was strong willed, independent
and lived her life as she wanted.  She was admired, beloved and an inspiration
to all the family.

Isabel was active in the California Association of Medical Laboratory
Technologists, the American Association of University Women, Ninety-Nines (Women
Pilots’ Association) where she served a term as president, and The Toastmasters
where she was a spirited speaker.

She is survived by her daughter Ann Elizabeth Harbeson, of Croton-on-Hudson, New
York; sons, L. Arthur Warmoth, of Rohnert Park, and Edward Huntley Warmouth, of
Helena, Montana; and six grandchildren, Monica Warmoth Hinson, Arthur Emery
Warmoth, Tonantzin Warmoth, Eric Harbeson, Kristen Harbeson, Alexander Warmoth;
and many other relatives and friends who loved her.

An interment and celebration of her life will be held at the Odd Fellows
Cemetery near Point Arena at 1 p.m. on Aug. 26.  It will be followed by an open
house at the home of her niece, Barbara Pesavento, adjacent to the Huntley Ranch.

Memorial donations are suggested to the California Association of Medical
Laboratory Technologists Scholarship Fund, the American Association of
University Women Education Foundation, or the Scholarship Fund of the Sacramento
Valley Chapter of Ninety-Nines.  For further information, call (707) 795-1064.


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Submitted with the permission of the “Winters Express,” 312 Railroad Ave.,
Winters, CA 95694.  

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