Verba J. Bailey; Community Volunteer

Verba J. Bailey, a longtime Thousand Oaks resident and community volunteer, has died following a long illness. She was 91.

Mrs. Bailey, who died Sunday at a Thousand Oaks convalescent hospital, first moved to California and settled in the Santa Monica area in 1935.

A few years later, she relocated to Thousand Oaks, where she remained a resident and homemaker for nearly 30 years, according to her daughter, Bonnie Cox, also of Thousand Oaks.

“My mother was a very dignified and proper person who loved her family very much,” Cox said. “We will miss her terribly.”

Mrs. Bailey was born in Hartville, Mo., but spent much of her youth in Marion County, Kan. She taught there in a one-room schoolhouse for a decade before retiring from teaching to marry Carlock Bailey, a movie studio sound engineer.

While a Thousand Oaks resident, she served as a volunteer in a local convalescent hospital and was active in her church.

Mrs. Bailey, who was preceded in death by her husband, five brothers and one sister, is survived by Cox, two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Graveside services will be held Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. at Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood. A private memorial service will be held later that day at the Cox residence. Pierce Brothers Griffin Mortuary in Thousand Oaks is handling the arrangements.