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.
Her husband, Charles O. Dolan, former mayor of Woodland, and her son, Delbert F. Anderson Jr. of Sacramento preceded her in death.
No visitation was scheduled prior to a private family interment ceremony at Knights Landing Cemetery.
Excerpt source: Woodland Daily Democrat,published Friday, November 11, 2005.
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.
Her husband, Charles O. Dolan, former mayor of Woodland, and her son, Delbert F. Anderson Jr. of Sacramento preceded her in death.
No visitation was scheduled prior to a private family interment ceremony at Knights Landing Cemetery.
Excerpt source: Woodland Daily Democrat,published Friday, November 11, 2005.
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.
Her husband, Charles O. Dolan, former mayor of Woodland, and her son, Delbert F. Anderson Jr. of Sacramento preceded her in death.
No visitation was scheduled prior to a private family interment ceremony at Knights Landing Cemetery.
Excerpt source: Woodland Daily Democrat,published Friday, November 11, 2005.
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.
Her husband, Charles O. Dolan, former mayor of Woodland, and her son, Delbert F. Anderson Jr. of Sacramento preceded her in death.
No visitation was scheduled prior to a private family interment ceremony at Knights Landing Cemetery.
Excerpt source: Woodland Daily Democrat,published Friday, November 11, 2005.
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