Eleanor Joanne Avila died on Friday Dec. 1, 2023. She was born on October 23, 1931 in Seattle, WA where she attended Roosevelt High School. She then moved to California to attend Standor University (class of 1952) and eventually worked for the Monterey Peninsula SchoolDistrict as both a teacher and a librarian. Throughout her life in Monterey County, she used her love of music and piano to accompany the Monterey Peninsula Choral Society, the Monterey Symphony Chorus, the Carmel Bach Festival, and the Monterey Chapter of the San Jose Symphonic Choir. During the 1980s, Eleanor decided to study organ with Ken Ahrens and this ld to playing the organ in services within Carmel, PAcfiic Grove, Monterey, and Salinas, CA.

 

She and her husband Richard Avila (Dec. 1995) raised their two sons Dave and Joel in Carmel Valley. She is survived by her sons Dave (Kristine) Avila, Joel (Veronica) Avila, and her young adult grandchildren Paulo, Analia, Alyssa, and Kassidy. Elanor would like to be remembered as a supporter of beautiful rural Carmel Valley, as a lvoer of children, books, libraries, music, and family. Her family will always remember her as a thoughful and generous person, an avid waler, traveler, art enthusiast, and as someone who immensely enjoyed her life in Carmel Valley and who trasured her sons and grandchildren.