Madalyn Jo Frazzini Perrine

1949 - 2015

Madalyn Jo Frazzini Perrine
July 21, 1949-July 1, 2015
Resident of Campbell
Madalyn Perrine died July 1, 2015, in the presence of husband Jay and daughter Danielle. In 2010 she was treated for breast cancer, and in August 2013 she was diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme, brain cancer, which took her life. She was treated for both cancers at El Camino Hospital Cancer Center.
Madalyn was born in Burbank, California, to Eugene and Josephine Frazzini, who about 10 years earlier had lost two infants. She was a very welcomed child. After serving as newspaper editor at Providence High School, she graduated from the University of California Santa Barbara in 1972 and then Washington University School of Law in St. Louis in 1974.
Madalyn moved to Northern California in 1974 after graduating from Washington University Law School in St. Louis. While in St Louis she met Jay Perrine of Cranbury, New Jersey, and fell madly in love. Initially Madalyn was a Vista volunteer for the Community Legal Services of Santa Clara County, and then she took a position at the California School Employees Association, a labor union representing more than 200,000 non-teaching public school employees, headquartered in San Jose. She was promoted to Deputy Chief Counsel in 1998 and retired in 2007 after 32 years of service.
After retirement Madalyn had more time to pursue her passion in music with St. Lucy's Choir and the Elbon Singers. She also accepted the invitation of the Campbell Adult and Community Education to play saxophone in the Campbell Express Band. She stayed social joining the Country Woman's Club of Campbell and was appointed to serve on the Campbell Civic Improvement Commission. Madalyn loved traveling with Jay and Danielle to Hawaii, Italy and Denmark.
With her active and generous spirit, she chaired the Country Woman's Club of Campbell Scholarship Committee for five years and oversaw the distribution of scholarship funds to deserving seniors in the Campbell Union High School District. Madalyn participated in the Avon Breast Cancer Walk as a survivor in 2013, volunteered as piano accompanist for the Skylark Singers, tutored at the Metropolitan Adult Education Program, served on the Campbell Civic Improvement Commission and with Jay worked annually as an election precinct inspector.
She also played in the Los Gatos Recreation Department Band and participated several years in San Jose Saxophone Christmas, a perennial holiday concert featuring more than 200 horns.
Madalyn is survived by her husband Jay Perrine of Campbell and daughter Danielle, as well as niece Kate Dewhirst and nephew Michael Dewhirst of Norwood, Massachusetts.
A funeral service will be celebrated on Saturday, July 11, at 11 a.m. at the First Congregational Church of San Jose, 1980 Hamilton Avenue.
The family suggests memorial contributions be sent to the Country Woman's Club of Campbell, P.O. Box 322, Campbell, CA 95009-0322. Make the check to CWCC Scholarship Fund and in the memo portion write Madalyn Perrine.