Patterson Cemetery District, Stanislaus County, CA 

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Davis Jean B, 020507 p12
Jean B. Davis, 71;  Former Patterson resident Jean B. Davis died of cancer April 25 in Madison, Wis.  She was 71.
Born in Upland, the daughter of John and Helen Bridenbaugh, she was raised in several California agricultural
communities and graduated from Patterson Union High School as salutatorian in the class of 1948.  She went on to
graduate with honors from Stanford University, earning a bachelor s degree in education in 1952 and a master s degree the
next year.  She raised a family and was extremely active in the activities of her children, then earned a master s degree in
urban land economics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1979.  She and partner Jim Graaskamp then founded
Landmark Research, and she became an expert in elderly housing and real estate appraisal, working extensively in
Wisconsin and the Minneapolis-St. Paul area and becoming a world traveler.  She founded LaLeche League in Honolulu,
Hawaii, was an advocate for education and worked with Omega School in Madison, served as chair of the United Way of
Dane County and as president of the YWCA, was a member of Altrusa and the Waisman Center, and was honored as the
YWCA s Woman of the Year in 1999.  She often helped many people who needed assistance with life skills and was
working toward her dream of creating a neighborhood center for Allied. She was an active member of the First
Congregational Church in Madison where a memorial service will be held May 18  Survivors include a son, Stephen Davis
of Middleton, Wis.; three daughters, Elizabeth Moran and Kathryn Messerich, both of Mendota Heights, Minn., and Janet
Osborne of Austin, Texas; eight grandchildren; and two sisters, Marian Dobbelare of Danville and Doris Mullins of
Gooding, Idaho. She was preceded in death by partner Jim Graaskamp.  Remembrances may be sent to the Madison
YWCA, First Congregational Church, or to a favorite charity.