Cynthia Jean Blair, born to Lois and John Blair on January 17, 1953, passed away this December 13 in Idyllwild, of natural causes.
Cindy grew up in Parma, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, where she attended St. Francis de Sales grade school and graduated from Nazareth Academy. She moved to sunny California to join her older sisters in 1973, settling in Palm Desert, where she married and had two sons. Cindy earned a Bachelor’s degree from CUSB and taught 2nd and 3rd grades for almost 20 years.
She was a loving, gentle, quick-witted woman of grace. An avid reader, Cindy would often complete her thoughts with bits of poetry, quotations from sacred text, or singing lyrics by Bob Dylan.
Cindy has been reunited with her beloved son Andrew, who passed before her in 2015, as well as her brother Terry and big sister Jackie, who passed away last April. She is survived by her son Daniel, the love of her life, as well as by her aunt Margaret-Mary, her brother Robert, and her sister Susan, whose Idyllwild home she shared for more than a decade.
Services will be held Wednesday, January 22 at 10 A.M., at Coachella Valley Cemetery.