This section is to honor those who have recently passed away, who were active members of the University Women’s Club. If you know of someone who is not mentioned here, (or if you have additional comments or corrections,) please forward a paragraph, including her UWC activities, to the webmaster, Joyce Spencer.

Kathryn Anne Terrill

January 29, 2024

Kathy Terrill was a member of the UWC for 29 years.

She was a member of the UWC Board for 9 years, serving as

  • Historian 2013-2015
  • New Member Chair 2015-16
  • Secretary 2016-17
  • Opera Brunch 2017-2019
  • New Member 2019-2021

She was also active in several interest groups.

She lived in Boulder for decades. She and husband Bill moved to Crozet, VA  in the Fall of 2023 to be near their son and family.

Read her obituary here.

Alice Frances Allen

January 20, 2024

Alice Allen was a member of the UWC for over 20 years.

She was a member of the Scholarship Committee.

Read her obituary here.

Lilian Baer

November 11, 2023

Lilian was a member of the UWC for many years.

She participated in the “Readers Theatre”

Read her obituary here.

Nancy Cateora

October 7, 2023

Nancy was a member of the UWC for many years.

She was a co-author of “The Colorado Cookbook” to benefit the University of Colorado Libraries – Boulder. The book has a copyright o 1981. Many of the testers for the book were UWC members.

Read her obituary here.

Juanita M. Madole

July 12, 2023

Juanita joined the UWC in 2022-23.

Read her obituary here.

Molly Sue Morton

May 16, 2023

Molly joined the UWC in 2010-2011 . She served on the Board forseveral years.

She was also active in many interest groups.

Read her obituary here.

Marge DeFries

December 31, 2022

Marge was an active member of the UWC for over 50 years. She served on the Board for many years.

She was also active in several interest groups.

Read her obituary here.

Claudine Merle Pier Garby

December 13, 2022

Claudine Garby was a member of the UWC for over 50 years.

She served as President 1991-92, received the President’s Award in 1995. and the Margaret Willard Award in 2007.

Claudine was on the UWC Board for many years.

Read her obituary here.

Edith Dell’Apa

December 8, 2022

Edith Dell’Apa was a long time member of the UWC.

She served as President 1983-84, received the President’s Award 1993, and the Margaret Willard Award in 2002.

Read her obituary here.

Nancy Eilerts Liggett

June 10, 2022

Nancy Eilerts Liggett was the Chair of the Interest Groups for several years. She was in UWC book groups and the Music group. She attended many of the UWC in-person events, prior to the Covid pandemic.

Read her obituary here.

Jeanne Nauenberg

November 22, 2021

Jeanne was an active member of the UWC while she lived  many years in Boulder.

Read her obituary here.

LaDonna R. Shea

LaDonna R.Shea

November 16, 2021

LaDonna was an active member of the UWC who participated in many interest groups. She is especially remembered by Sherry Bruff who co-chaired the Snowshoeing group with her for many years.

Read her obituary here.

Kathleen G Peterson 

Kathleen Peterson

October 26, 2021

Kathleen served on the UWC Board from 2019 through May 2021 as chair of the Margaret Willard Award.

No obituary available.

Judith Ann Ramsay 

February 27, 2021

Judy joined the Faculty Women’s Club in 1969 and was a member for over 50 years.  She was active in a book group.

Read her obituary here.

Carroll Kalafus 

Carroll Kalafus

February 22, 2021

Carroll joined the UWC in the 2011 year. She became a member of the UWC Board serving as Nominating Chair in 2017-18, then Secretary-Elect in 2018-19, and Secretary in 2019-20

Read her obituary here.

Jane Byers

January 13, 2021

Mary Jane Zollinger Byers, 94, passed peacefully at home among family and friends on January 13, 2021 in Boulder, Colorado.

Jane was a member of the University Wives Club where she was often a model for their fashion shows.

Her husband, Charles Albert Byers, was a music teacher for CU Boulder.

She was a member of various music groups including the Tuesday Morning music group and The Faculty Wives Music group. She sang in several operas including Katisha in The Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan (conducted by Charles)

Jane was a loyal member of the UWC Music interest group.

She was a member of the UWC for over 50 years.

Read her obituary here.

Norma Schattke

January 2, 2021

Norma Schattke was a member of the UWC for over 50 years. She was UWC President in 1985-86.

She co-chaired the Music Group for many years. She played the piano for many of the Music Group meetings

Read her obituary here.

Virginia Stringi

April 11, 2020

Virginia joined the UWC in 2009 and was an active member since then:

  • 2010-2011 Chair of Hospitality and co-chair of Current Events interest group
  • 2011-2012 Chair of Hospitality and Chair of Tea and Travel interest group for many years!
  • 2012-2013 Chair of Nominating Committee
  • 2013-2014 Chair of the April Scholarship Luncheon and Co-Chair of the Book Group – Evening (through 2015-16)
  • 2014-2015 Secretary
  • 2015-2016 – Chair of the Opera Brunch plus President’s Award recipient
  • 2016-2017 Chair of Membership
  • 2018-2019 New Member Chair

Virginia was also a loyal member of the hiking group and the gardening group. She knew the names of all the wildflowers on the many hikes she took. She is sorely missed.

Read her obituary here.