Rachael Juanita Jones Trott, BHS 1926

Rachael Juanita Jones Trott, BHS 1926

Published in Los Angeles Times, Tuesday, May 13, 1997

Rachael J. Trott, died May 4, 1997 in Walnut Creek, California, at age 89. She was born in Greens Fork, Indiana, and moved to Burbank, California in 1919, graduating from Burbank High and U.C.L.A. She taught school in Burbank for 4 years until she married her high school sweetheart and husband of 60 years, Fred Trott, in 1933.

Upon returning to teaching in Tulare County in 1948, she was soon considered to be a pioneer in the field of special education. She helped organize and served as president of the Tulare County Chapter of the Council for Exceptional Children. She became a school psychometrist, school psychologist and councilor. After moving to West Covina in 1956, she began work in special education in the Covina Valley Unified School District, eventually serving as Coordinator for Special Education. She was active in the Covina Soroptimist, Delta Kappa Gamma (Zeta Tau), and the Los Angeles County Administrators for Special Education in which she served as Legislative Chairperson and President in 1969, the year of her retirement. From 1969 until 1995, she lived in Morro Bay, and was active and held office in the California Retired Teachers Association, the League of Women Voters, Delta Kappa Gamma (Epsilon Delta), American Association of University Women and the Floral Design Study Club. Following the death of her husband Fred in 1994, she moved to Oakland, where she resided in active retirement until her health began to fail.

She is survived by her sons, Thomas F. Trott, M.D., Los Angeles and Michael Trott, Berkeley; as well as four grandchildren, John Matthew Trott, New York, Erika Trott, Oakland, and Sara Trott, Berkeley. She has been cremated and her remains will be scattered at sea near Morro Bay. An informal Memorial Service will be planned for later in the summer.

The family requests that instead of flowers, persons might wish to make a contribution to a scholarship fund for graduating high school students in San Luis Obispo. Donations made be to SLO County CRTA Scholarship Fund, on the check, a notation should be made “in memory of Rachael Trott”. Donations should be mailed to Mrs. Jean Honeyman, PO Box 2147, Avila Beach, CA. 93424.