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# Elsie Saye, 98, dies in Az
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/elsie-saye-98-dies-in-az/
- Published: 2003-04-02T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T01:59:37.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: local, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

Elsie G. Saye, 98, passed away March 24, 2003, at Country Home in Camp Verde. She had lived with her daughter and son-in-law in Sedona Shadows, Sedona, Ariz., for 13 years.

Mrs. Saye is survived by daughter Frances McNabb Gray (Mrs. Wallace F.) of Sedona, Ariz., and son Gordon McNabb of Bellingham, Wash., as well as eight grandchildren, 27 great grandchil-dren and four great-great grandchildren, many of whom were at her funeral services on March 28 in Sedona. She is also survived by one brother and three sisters.

She was a life-long member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Mrs. Saye was married to Donald McNabb of Santa Monica, Calif., who died in 1939\. Later she married Jim Saye of Escondido, Calif. He died in 1988.

Mrs. Saye previously lived in Escondido, Calif., where she was employed by Palomar Community College in nearby San Marcos as the bookstore manager, and earlier in Santa Monica, Calif., where she was employed by the Santa Monica City Board of Education as a secretary.

For her last 40 years of life she was blind, but she was able to continue employment at Palomar College, becoming the switchboard operator and receptionist.

In spite of her blindness she was able to keep in touch with her family and friends by writing letters using a manual typewriter. She was a spiritual inspiration to her children and grandchildren and friends. She loved them and they loved her.

She was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and attended the LDS Business College there.

Internment was at Woodlawn Cemetery in Santa Monica.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on April 2, 2003.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/040203.pdf?ref=smdp.com)