Passages: Vieve Metcalfe, longtime Angeles Chapter member

Vieve Metcalfe, a resident of La Crescenta for the past 25 years and former Angeles Chapter treasurer, has died. She was 82 years old.

Vieve's volunteer activities included many years as a National Ski Patrol member.  She was very active in the Sierra Club and served as treasurer of the club’s Angeles Chapter. More recently she volunteered at the Southern California Genealogical Society as a director and as co-chair of the Library Operations Committee.

She died on August 22. Born in Boston Massachusetts on Nov. 2, 1934, she was the daughter of John Brownlow Metcalfe and Genevieve Alice Parker Metcalfe. 

Vieve grew up in Massachusetts while maintaining a strong link to Alaska through her mother’s family connections to that state. She graduated with a BA degree from Cornell University and an MBA from Santa Clara University. While living in the Bay Area one of her employers was Stanford Research Institute. After relocating to the Los Angeles area she was employed by Times Mirror Corp. where, at the time of her retirement, she was a business research manager.

Among her many interests were travel, genealogy and family history, and gardening.  An accomplished pianist in her youth, in later life she enjoyed handbell ringing at Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church in Pasadena. She was also a longtime enthusiast of outdoor activities and the environmental movement. 

Vieve will be remembered for her kindness, ready smile, wry sense of humor, intelligence, lively curiosity, and willingness to help.

She is survived by her Life Partner Jay Holladay, and his two grandchildren, her brother John Parker Metcalfe and sister-in-law Alison of Salisbury, Vermont, sister Nancy Metcalfe Hearne and brother-in-law Bill Salvo who reside in Italy, five nieces and nephews, and six great-nieces and great-nephews.

A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Nov. 11 at Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church, 301 North Orange Grove Blvd., Pasadena (next to the Gamble House). 

Donations in Vieve’s memory may be made to The Sierra Club Foundation, 2101 Webster Street, Suite 1250, Oakland, CA, 94612, or to City of Hope, 1500 East Duarte Road, Duarte, CA 91010.