Mayre Daily Livingston; Pioneer Family
A funeral service for Mayre Daily Livingston, whose family was among the first residents of the Port Hueneme and Camarillo areas, will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at Conejo Mountain Memorial Park in Camarillo. She was 91.
A homemaker for more than 60 years, she was born on the Patterson Ranch in Port Hueneme, one of seven children of Charles Jay Daily and Theresa Gifler Daily. She died Monday in an Oxnard convalescent hospital after a brief illness.
Mrs. Livingston’s father arrived in the area known as Hueneme in 1881 to manage the 6,000-acre ranch. He moved to the Camarillo area in the early 1900s and farmed his own ranch, according to Mrs. Livingston’s daughter, Ann L. Laycock of Camarillo. Daily enjoyed experimental horticulture and developed the Cole Fuerte avocado, a variety that does well in Ventura County’s climate, Laycock said.
Mrs. Livingston was one of the founders of Las Patronas Auxiliary of Ventura County and a dona of the Pleasant Valley Historical Society.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert S. Livingston, a rancher and member of the Oxnard City Council during the 1940s, and her son, Robert Daily Livingston.
In addition to her daughter, she is survived by another daughter, Marcia L. Donlon of Somis; a twin sister, Martha Schreiber of Newbury Park; 12 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Conejo Mountain Memorial Park & Funeral Home, Camarillo.
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