LEIGH-TAYLOR, Charlotte. A pioneering family section editor at the Santa Monica Evening Outlook and a widely known columnist in the Los Angeles area, died May 19 in Sacramento, California. She was two weeks shy of her 91st birthday. In the late 1950s, Mrs. Leigh-Taylor was a leader in refocusing newspaper "society" pages that concentrated on weddings and charity balls into more substantive human-interest sections. Her restyled "Outlook" pages won many journalism awards and the innovation was widely copied.
Born Charlotte Henriette Bowman June 5, 1916, in Racine, Wisconsin, she attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and graduated from UCLA in 1943 (sociology). She married the late Denys Milner Leigh-Taylor, a South African-born contractor and real estate developer, in 1942. They were divorced in 1956 but remained close until his death in 1978.
Mrs. Leigh-Taylor "retired" in 1969 to Roatan Island, Honduras, to co-run a bone-fishing resort. She returned to the U.S. in 1971 and built her own public relations firm in Santa Barbara. Shuttling between Boca Raton, Florida; Berkeley, California, and later Green Valley, Arizona, Mrs. Leigh-Taylor continued to contribute articles to local newspapers until well into her eighties. In 2005 she moved to Sacramento, California, to be closer to her daughter. -- Sacramento Bee, 12 Jun 2007
Born Charlotte Henriette Bowman June 5, 1916, in Racine, Wisconsin, she attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and graduated from UCLA in 1943 (sociology). She married the late Denys Milner Leigh-Taylor, a South African-born contractor and real estate developer, in 1942. They were divorced in 1956 but remained close until his death in 1978.
Mrs. Leigh-Taylor "retired" in 1969 to Roatan Island, Honduras, to co-run a bone-fishing resort. She returned to the U.S. in 1971 and built her own public relations firm in Santa Barbara. Shuttling between Boca Raton, Florida; Berkeley, California, and later Green Valley, Arizona, Mrs. Leigh-Taylor continued to contribute articles to local newspapers until well into her eighties. In 2005 she moved to Sacramento, California, to be closer to her daughter. -- Sacramento Bee, 12 Jun 2007
LEIGH-TAYLOR, Charlotte. A pioneering family section editor at the Santa Monica Evening Outlook and a widely known columnist in the Los Angeles area, died May 19 in Sacramento, California. She was two weeks shy of her 91st birthday. In the late 1950s, Mrs. Leigh-Taylor was a leader in refocusing newspaper "society" pages that concentrated on weddings and charity balls into more substantive human-interest sections. Her restyled "Outlook" pages won many journalism awards and the innovation was widely copied.
Born Charlotte Henriette Bowman June 5, 1916, in Racine, Wisconsin, she attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and graduated from UCLA in 1943 (sociology). She married the late Denys Milner Leigh-Taylor, a South African-born contractor and real estate developer, in 1942. They were divorced in 1956 but remained close until his death in 1978.
Mrs. Leigh-Taylor "retired" in 1969 to Roatan Island, Honduras, to co-run a bone-fishing resort. She returned to the U.S. in 1971 and built her own public relations firm in Santa Barbara. Shuttling between Boca Raton, Florida; Berkeley, California, and later Green Valley, Arizona, Mrs. Leigh-Taylor continued to contribute articles to local newspapers until well into her eighties. In 2005 she moved to Sacramento, California, to be closer to her daughter. -- Sacramento Bee, 12 Jun 2007
Born Charlotte Henriette Bowman June 5, 1916, in Racine, Wisconsin, she attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and graduated from UCLA in 1943 (sociology). She married the late Denys Milner Leigh-Taylor, a South African-born contractor and real estate developer, in 1942. They were divorced in 1956 but remained close until his death in 1978.
Mrs. Leigh-Taylor "retired" in 1969 to Roatan Island, Honduras, to co-run a bone-fishing resort. She returned to the U.S. in 1971 and built her own public relations firm in Santa Barbara. Shuttling between Boca Raton, Florida; Berkeley, California, and later Green Valley, Arizona, Mrs. Leigh-Taylor continued to contribute articles to local newspapers until well into her eighties. In 2005 she moved to Sacramento, California, to be closer to her daughter. -- Sacramento Bee, 12 Jun 2007
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