Veva Eilers McKee; Cultural Leader in Pasadena, San Marino

Veva Eilers McKee, 69, a cultural and charitable leader in San Marino and Pasadena. A nursing graduate of USC, McKee later served as vice chairman of the Pasadena Council on Alcoholism, which worked to educate children about the dangers of drinking. She was a director of the Garden Club of America, a leader in the Pasadena Garden Club and a board member and noted fund-raiser for the Los Angeles County Arboretum Foundation. McKee was also active in the Huntington Library Society of Fellows, Art Center 100, the Town Club of Pasadena and the Luminaires of the Doheny Eye Institute. On Saturday in Los Angeles of cancer.