Yolo County CA Archives Obituaries.....[Ray] Dolan, Leila Isabelle      November 3, 2005
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The Woodland Daily Democrat
Dolan, Leila Isabelle     
 
Nov. 16, 1911 - Nov. 3, 2005

Isabelle Dolan passed away at her Woodland home at the age of 93, on Thursday, 
Nov. 3, 2005. She was born in Davisville (now Davis), on Nov. 16, 1911 to 
Carroll Martin and Leila May (Baylis) Ray. She was a Yolo County resident for 
79 years, having spent her early married life in Oregon. 

Isabelle was a 1927 graduate of Woodland High School and worked as a legal 
secretary for 26 years following her return to Yolo County. She was a member 
of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, the Knights Landing Bridge Club, Order of 
Eastern Star, the Delta Theta Tau and the Yolo County Historical Society. She 
enjoyed day trips to Cache Creek, knitting, reading and was a long-standing 
supporter the Woodland Opera House, where she looked forward to each new 
season. A natural storyteller with an excellent memory, she enjoyed writing 
and telling stories of her family's life in California before the Gold Rush 
and her own childhood in then rural Davisville. Isabelle was widely traveled, 
and appreciated China, Ireland, Great Britain and all of the United States, 
especially the Northwest was particularly pleasing to her. She always looked 
forward to spending the Christmas holidays with her extensive family, when she 
would provide the piano accompaniment for the family chorus. A highlight of 
her lifelong love of the piano was, as a teenager, playing for the "silent 
movies" at the Varsity Theater in Davis.

Isabelle is survived by her daughters, Celia Scott of Elk Grove, Patricia R. 
Wheeler of Woodland and Madeline McMurray and husband David of Bayside. 
Stepdaughters, Charlotte McConnell and husband John of Bakersfield and LaVerne 
Mayes and husband Ronald of Woodland also survive as do 16 grandchildren, 22 
great-grandchildren and 9 great-great-grandchildren. Her husband, Charles O. 
Dolan, former mayor of Woodland, and her son, Delbert F. Anderson Jr. of 
Sacramento preceded her in death.

No visitation is scheduled prior to a private family interment ceremony at 
Knights Landing Cemetery. The family requests memorial donations in Mrs. 
Dolan's memory be made to Yolo Hospice, P.O. Box 1014, Davis, 95617.

Kraft Bros. Funeral Directors is assisting the family with arrangements. 
Inquiries may be made by calling Kraft Bros. Funeral Directors at 662-4658.

Visit the guest book at www.dailydemocrat.com.

Published in the Daily Democrat on 11/11/2005. 
 


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