Grubb Family Tree

Adele Abbie Allbright was born August 1, 1919 in Cupertino, CA to Ken and Katherine Coykendall. Adele died March 4, 2011 in the Dominican Hospital Comfort Care Unit under the compassionate watch of the palliative care staff.

During WWII Adele learned to use a microscope while working for a large food processing plant in Cupertino. Her job was to do worm counts on tomato plants. She spurned catsup ever after. Adele later became a laboratory technician at Santa Cruz County Hospital. She also became one of the first women in the area to receive a pilot's license in 1947. She gave up flying after tangling with a tree upon landing. She had three children to consider.

Adele later moved to Pacific Grove with her children where she became an x-ray technician. There she met and married Lt. Commander Willard F. Allbright, USN. Their favorite port of call was Caracas, Venezuela from 1958 to 61. Adele loved learning and speaking Spanish, dancing to the Latin bands and traveling around the countryside.

After "retiring" Will and Adele settled in Aptos. They bought a donut shop on Water Street and renamed it "Allbright's Donuts." They would get up at 3:30 AM to arrive in time to help with baking, packing and stocking donuts. Adele thoroughly enjoyed teasing and being teased by the regulars.

The Allbrights traveled extensively after officially retiring. They went with the Watsonville Community Band as boosters on the band's trip to Germany and later to Australia and New Zealand. They also drove to Alaska in their motor home caravanning with another couple.

Adele's favorite job was volunteering in the coffee shop at Watsonville Hospital as a Pink Lady. She greatly missed working there when she could no longer drive.

From obituary published in Santa Cruz Sentinel.