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Independent Journal
Tuesday, May 1, 2001
ELIZABETH KENT SOLOSKI
In Marin County, April 26, 2001 after a long illness. Beloved Wife of Nickolas Soloski for 55 years; loving Mother of Caroline Ellis of Santa Rosa; Andrea Budd of Oakland; Mark of Sonoma; Theodore of Sebastopol and Eleanor Piazza of Portland, Oregon; she is also survived by her sister Eleanor Kent of San Francisco and beloved grandmother to 10 grandchildren; Sean Seeley of San Francisco, Justin Seeley of Sacramento, Sophie Ellis of San Diego, Bryan Ellis of Illinois, Jeffrey, Jacob and Jason Soloski of Sebastopol, Sarah, Molly and Hannah Piazza of Portland, Oregon.
She was a native of California, daughter to the late William Kent Jr. and Sophia Morris Kent, granddaughter of U.S. representative William Kent, the inheritor of a Chicago Meat-packing fortune who moved to Marin County in the late 1800s and gave Muir Woods to the federal government and park lands on Mount Tamalpais to the State. Other portions of the congressman’s land holdings became the Kent Woodlands luxury housing development and after the state government refused to accept it as a gift, the Seadrift development on Stinson Beach.
Mrs. Soloski was born in San Francisco and later became a resident of Marin County for 51 years. She was a graduate of Burke’s School for girls in San Francisco and later became a USO volunteer where she met her husband, Nickolas.
She was known for her great capacity of giving and volunteerism. While actively involved at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Ross, she taught Sunday School for over 30 years, was a member of the Woman’s Guild and participant of Cursillo. She also was a Pink Lady for 10 years at Marin General Hospital and provided home care to the elderly.
Memorial Services will be at 2 p.m. at St. John’s Church on Lagunitas Road in Ross on Saturday, May 5, 2001.
In Lieu of flowers, please make contributions to the American Lung Association.
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