Eleanor Price; Pet Columnist for The Times
Eleanor Price, who parlayed a lifelong interest in animals into a late-in-life writing career that made her known to thousands of pet owners in Southern California and many thousands more throughout the West, died Thursday.
Mrs. Price, the longtime pet columnist for the Los Angeles Times and several other publications, was 79 and died of cardiac arrest at Doctors Hospital in Lakewood. She was admitted earlier this week with pneumonia, said a daughter, Suzanne Hicks.
Mrs. Price began writing for publication when she was 45 and pregnant with the last of her four children, Hicks said. Although she continued to consider herself primarily a housewife, she eventually became pet columnist for The Times and its syndicate and Western editor for Dog World Magazine.
Her writings, advice to pet owners and listings of animal shows had appeared for more than 30 years in the Times’ Home magazine and its successor publication, Los Angeles Times Magazine.
She is survived by another daughter, two sons, seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
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