Service Set for S.D. Native Dorothy Adele Landon, 95

A memorial service is planned Feb. 26 for Dorothy Adele Landon, 95, a San Diego native.

Mrs. Landon died at the Cloisters of Mission Hills convalescent home on Jan. 25 after a long illness. She was buried at Ft. Rosecrans National Cemetery, near her husband, Eliot F. Landon.

Mrs. Landon, one of seven children, was born at the family home, at 9th Avenue and E Street downtown. Her parents, Henry Bishop Morris and Katheryn Baker Morris, had moved to San Diego in 1886 to open a branch of a Cincinnati cookie company, said Morris Landon, her son.

When Mrs. Landon was 5 years old, the family moved to Berkeley, where she later graduated from Berkeley High School. She attended UC Berkeley, where she majored in architecture and was a member of Delta Zeta sorority.

Mrs. Landon moved with her husband back to San Diego in 1929 when he was appointed director of vocational education for San Diego city schools.

Mrs. Landon lived in Loma Portal for 55 years before she moved to the Cloisters because of failing health, said her son.

During World War II, Mrs. Landon took a brushup course in analytical geometry and calculus and then went to work in the engineering department of Ryan Aeronautical Co. Landon said. After the war, she worked in the engineering division of San Diego’s water department for 13 years until retirement.

The love of her life, however, was her work with the Flower Arrangers Guild, Landon said. Her work won numerous awards and ribbons in the annual flower show sponsored by the San Diego Floral Assn.

She also contributed pen-and-ink drawings, block prints and illustrations to the association’s publications.

Mrs. Landon also was active in community groups, including the San Diego Symphony Assn. Auxiliary and the American Assn. of University Women.

Mrs. Landon is survived by her children, Morris F. Landon and Martha Myrl Saunders, both of San Diego, and E. Laird Landon of Rancho Santa Fe, six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

The memorial service will be at 4:30 p.m. Feb. 26 at All Souls’ Episcopal Church, 1475 Catalina Blvd.