Remembering Lenora Timm

A memorial service was held on Thursday, January 26 at Putah Creek Lodge for Lenora “Nora” Timm, a professor emerita of linguistics and former associate dean of Graduate Studies.

Timm, who died Nov. 22 at age 73 after a recurring battle with cancer, was an internationally known expert on Breton, an endangered Celtic language of Brittany in northwest France.

Family, friends and colleagues also remembered her as a fearless advocate for UC Davis students, a fair-minded champion of social justice, and an environmentalist who helped preserve thousands of acres of threatened wildlife habitat in California, Wyoming, Nevada and New Mexico.

Among other conservation efforts, Timm and her husband, biologist Frank Maurer, spearheaded the creation of the Quail Ridge Reserve to preserve native grasses and oak woodlands in Napa County near Lake Berryessa. Now close to 2,000 acres, Quail Ridge is part of the UC Natural Reserve System.

Read complete obituary on the College of Letters and Science website.

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