IN MEMORIAM: Mohr Day: Alumna, staffer

Judith Ann Mohr Day, 61, passed away in her Winters home on Nov. 14. The cause of death is pending.

She was born on Sept. 16, 1948, in Freehold, N.J., to Augustus and Edna Mohr. She moved with her family to California in 1959 and graduated from Canoga Park High School.

Mohr Day received her bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, in 1970. She moved to Davis when she went with her first husband to attend graduate school in agricultural engineering at UC Davis.

In 1989, she married Michael Day and moved to Winters; he passed away in 1998. A member of UC Davis Quarter Century Club, Mohr Day was employed at University Extension and in the accounting and animal science departments before her retirement in 2002. After her retirement, she was recalled to help out with health system fiscal matters for the departments of physical medicine and rehabilitation, neurology, and the orthopedic research lab.

According to colleagues, Mohr Day loved her pet dogs and cats. She also enjoyed traveling to national parks in North America and dining out with her friends.

She is survived by her brother, Dick, of Weed, and sister, Nancy Condosta, of Rancho Cucamonga, four nieces and three nephews, and her mother-in-law, Ida Mae Day, of Des Moines, Iowa.

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Clifton B. Parker, Dateline, (530) 752-1932, cparker@ucdavis.edu

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