Mrs. Blethen was born and reared in San Francisco, graduating from Sacred Heart Convent and San Francisco College for Women. She then became a social service worker for the state and for Catholic charities.
From 1954 to 1964, she managed the Colonial Hotel in San Francisco, which belonged to the family of her late husband, Howard.
She then served five years as manager of the Tiburon Peninsula club and then became manager of the Sacred Heart convent and school.
She lived in Bodega Bay and was a saleswoman for the Kay Noah real estate firm.
She was a member of the St. Teresa’s Ladies’ Guild, a former member of the Ross Valley Players and the Audubon Society, and was a golfer, swimmer and bridge enthusiast.
Evelyn Georgina (born in Corinto, then Realejo, Nicaragua, Central America on board Steamship North America, November 3, 1851) were the last to leave the ship’s wreck, and it was my daughter’s first time on terra firma, she being carried to Acapulco in a champagne basket
Proprietor of a jewelry store in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine.