Mildred Brown Wenzell

Mildred “Millie”Brown Wenzell was born in San Francisco on January 23, 1919, to Marion Aldrich Brown and Walter Mansfield Brown. She passed away peacefully on June 10, 2017 at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, California. She attended Sarah Dix Hamlin, Katherine Delmar Burke schools prior to Stanford University. She went on to further her studies at Rudolph Schaeffer School of Design in San Francisco, and Chouinard Art Institute of Design in Los Angeles. During WWII she was employed in the engineering department of Lockheed Aircraft and Bechtel Ship Building where the Victory and Liberty ships were built. She spent most of her time on the family farm in the Sacramento Delta where she dearly loved her farming experience and connections.

Millie was married and divorced from her first husband, Robert M. Millhauser who together raised their four children: Deborah Lewis, Cynthia Acker, Christina Wallum and Daphne Blackmer. She remarried Albert B. Wenzell in 1990. She was predeceased by her half-brother Walter Mansfield Brown, Jr. She leaves behind nine grandchildren and six greatgrandchildren.

She was one of the founding members of Crystal Springs Uplands School in Hillsborough, California, a long-time member of the Burlingame Country Club, a past president of the Hillsborough Garden Club and member of the Cabalgatas horse riding club.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to be made to: Sacramento River Delta Historical Society (SRDHS) P. O. Box 293 Walnut Grove, CA 95690, Crystal Springs Uplands School, 400 Uplands Drive Hillsborough, CA 94010 or The Hillsborough Garden Club P.O. Box 209 Burlingame, CA 94011.

Per Millie’s request a private service will be held for family only.