Candy D’Addario was an active member of LWV-PA after moving to Pasadena in 2004. Prior to that, she had been an involved LWV member in Tucson, Arizona. A dedicated member of the education, natural resources, and voter services committees, she led the Breakfast Unit meeting for many years. Candy also served on the Board and led a study.

She was positive, enthusiastic, organized, well-informed, and generous with her time, giving more than was asked of her. She was also a voluntary ombudsman for the California Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program, under whose auspices she visited patients in local nursing home facilities to help ensure that they were receiving proper care.

Born and raised in New Britain, Connecticut, she completed high school there. After graduating from Ohio Wesleyan University, she earned her master’s degree in physical therapy at Stanford University, where she met her husband, Larry, also a graduate student. She worked as a physical therapist for many years.

Her many interests included music, hiking, backpacking, reading, and cooking. She played several musical instruments, including the piano, guitar, and mountain dulcimer, and was beginning to learn the mandolin. As a member of three book clubs, she managed all the reading involved. Candy was a tai chi student when in 2012 she was diagnosed with multiple myeloma and in 2018 with an additional cancer; nevertheless, she continued her work with the League.

We will miss Candy and are grateful for the experiences we shared working on League and community issues over the past fifteen years.

Candy is survived by her husband, Larry D’Addario, daughter Olivia D’Addario and her husband Samuel Brook, granddaughter Josephine, and sister Cynthia Ainsworth and her husband Robert Nyden.

—Ruth Judkins