Pilar F. Nye; Descendant of Pioneer Family

Pilar F. Nye, a homemaker and pioneer family descendant, died Sunday at a Ventura hospital. She was 72.

Nye was born Pilar Maria Jensen on May 29, 1928, in Santa Barbara to Earl Theodore Jensen and Dulce de la Cuesta Jensen. Her father built the first home in Solvang, and her parents were among the earliest settlers in the Danish community. Her grandfather was former Santa Barbara County Supervisor Eduardo de la Cuesta, a descendant of Pablo Antonio Cota, who came to California in 1769 with Father Junipero Serra.

She attended schools in the Santa Ynez Valley and graduated from high school at the Dominican Convent in San Rafael. She attended UC Berkeley, where she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma.

In 1948, she married Charles Adams and lived in the Berkeley and Sacramento areas, where she was a member of the Sacramento Junior League and past president of the Sacramento Assn. for Retarded Children.

After a divorce, she moved to Santa Barbara in 1973 and worked in the Ventura office of the State Compensation Insurance Fund.

A year after her move, she met and married Robert R. Nye. The couple made Ventura their home. She was a member of the Rotary Anns, Ojai Valley Garden Club, Assistance League of Ventura County, P.E.O. Sisterhood, Santa Barbara Historical Society, Santa Barbara Art Museum, Ventura Historical Society, Ventura County Museum of History and Art, Ojai Valley Club and Alumni Club of Kappa Kappa Gamma.

She was preceded in death by son John C. Adams in 1962 and husband Robert R. Nye in 1994.

She is survived by daughter Pilar Logan of Ventura and sister Francesca Crawford of Santa Barbara.

Services are scheduled at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Ted Mayr Funeral Home in Ventura, with the Rev. George Reynolds of Our Lady of the Assumption Church officiating. Burial will follow at Ivy Lawn Memorial Park in Ventura.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Ventura County Museum of History and Art, 100 E. Main St., Ventura, 93001, or to the Santa Barbara Historical Museum, 136 E. De la Guerra, Santa Barbara, 93101.

Arrangements are under the direction of the Ted Mayr Funeral Home in Ventura.