Victoria Modesta Daylin

Victoria Modesta Daylin, age 96, of Grants Pass, died Friday, September 13, 2013 at Spring Point.

A viewing will be from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, September 25, 2013 at Hull & Hull Chapel. A rosary will follow at 7:00 p.m.

A funeral mass will be at 12 Noon, Thursday, September 26, 2013 at St Anne Catholic Church with Father Jose Manual Campos officiating. Interment will be planned at a later date in Riverside, California at Evergreen Cemetery. Hull & Hull Funeral Directors are in charge of arrangements.

Victoria was born December 23, 1916 on St. Victoria’s Day in Detroit, Michigan to Vincent and Marianne Piernikowski. She was the oldest of four siblings. Victoria and her family moved back to Poland until 1934 when her mother sent her children back to the safety of the United States. Her mother followed shortly after. During her school years in Poland she attended a convent school, graduated, and then was trained as a master seamstress. Back in the United States, in June of 1935 she married Henry Joseph Anthony Daylin who passed in 1984. They lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where they owned and ran a shoe store until 1955 when they moved to Riverside and Palm Springs, California. After her husband passed, Victoria moved to Carpinteria, California to live with her daughter’s family until 1994 when she and the family moved to Grants Pass.

She enjoyed sewing, traveling, crocheting, gardening, Bingo, and doing unique projects involving stone, mosaics, and cements. She loved fashion and in the finest of European traditions, she was always beautifully dressed and well mannered. Her most memorable trip was to Rome to personally meet Pope John Paul XXIII and to be with him in St. Peter’s Square as he celebrated Palm Sunday Mass in March of 1990.

While in Grants Pass, she was an active volunteer at the Senior Center on B Street, helping prepare Meals on Wheels for many years.

Survivors include her two daughters, Victoria Krouch of Port Charlotte, Florida and Diane Mease of Genoa, Nevada; five grandchildren; Dr. Tiffany Townsend, Robert Williams, John Williams, Peter Williams, and Kevin Mease, and two great-granddaughters.