Virginia Nichols Dille

Virginia Nichols Dille
Mrs. Robert Crabtree Dille
December 1, 1921 ~ February 17, 2009

CARMEL - Virginia N. Dille, 87, passed away
peacefully after a brief illness at the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula surrounded by her loving children.
After graduating with a BA in business administration from the University of Chicago in 1943, she began a successful career with General Motors during World War II and later in the newspaper business at the National Newspaper Syndicate in Chicago. Mrs. Dille served as a leader of the Infant Welfare Society, the North Shore Country Day School, the American Association of University Women, and as a Deaconess of the Community Church. Mrs. Dille began the volunteer structure of the Aphasia Clinic at Northwestern University and initiated the first Newborn Mother's Milk Bank in Chicago in the early 1950's. She was elected to Who's Who of American Women in 1964.
Mrs. Dille came to the Monterey Peninsula in 1977 where she and her husband began the Cypress Word Shop. Continuing in the tradition of volunteer service for which she was known in Chicago, she was appointed to the board of the Church of the Wayfarer and served on various committees. She also served on the state board of the Carmel Foundation where she was elected vice president of the board. Mrs. Dille was a member of Casa Abrego and attended the Church in the Forest.
Mrs. Dille is survived by her daughter, Lorraine Dille Williams (James E. Williams, Jr.), of Lake Forest, Illinois; and Robert Flint Nichols Dille (Teresa Berlin Dille), of Los Angeles, California; and three grandchildren: Alexis Brook Nichols Williams, of Washington D.C.; and Zane Alexander Berlin Dille and Gwynna Columbia Dille, of Los Angeles.
Private family services will be held at graveside. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to: Easter Seals, 233 South Wacker Drive, Suite 2400, Chicago, IL 60606. Arrangements are by The Paul Mortuary in Pacific Grove.