Della Dawn Warner

Della Dawn Warner entered into eternal rest on the morning of July 30, 2023, in San Pedro, California. She was 89 years old. She was a beloved wife and mother.

Della grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, and Southern California and was a longtime resident of San Pedro. She had five brothers and one sister.

She graduated from Downey Union High School and attended Los Angeles Harbor College.

She began working for the Telephone Company as a teenager and retired after 30 years of service. She was also a Past President of the Telephone Pioneers of America.

She married James H. Warner Jr. in 1961 and they were married for 39 years until his passing on February 27, 2001. In 1969 her daughter Laura Dawn was born.

She was devoted to her husband and daughter and loved travel (especially cruises), golfing, gardening, and action movies.

She enjoyed attending St. Peter’s Episcopal Church and Good Shepherd Lutheran Church.
She loved all her sisters and brothers from the many fraternal organizations to which she belonged. She was a Past Worthy Matron of San Pedro Harbor Chapter No. 174, Order of the Eastern Star, and a Past Grand Representative to Missouri in California. She served as Bethel Guardian of Job’s Daughters Bethel No. 24 San Pedro. She was a member of Daughters of the Nile and Ladies Oriental Shrine.

She was also active in the San Pedro Elks Lodge 966, Queen of the Elks Ruff-Neks, a member of Retired Elks, the San Pedro Elks Ladies Auxiliary and the San Pedro Peninsula Chamber of Commerce Auxiliary.

She was a member of the Magic Castle, The Society for the Preservation of Variety Arts, the Grand Representative Association of Southern California, friends of the San Pedro Library, Royal Order of Talonetts, California Candlelighters, C-PAB and Harbor L.I.T.E.S.

She had a wide variety of interests and talents. She was great at many hobbies such as baking, needlework, sewing, all kinds of crafts, and cat wrangling. She was a licensed Amateur Radio Operator, a Hospital Volunteer and attended the Range Rover Driving Experience and Wilton School of Cake Decorating.

In her later years, she enjoyed keeping up with local news with the Daily Breeze, listening to KJaZZ, reading, watching Los Angeles Dodgers baseball, relaxing with her cats, and going out with her friend Eric MacNeil.

She loved to laugh and enjoyed a good joke, the sillier the better. Her husband’s and daughter’s happiest memories were making her laugh.

Della had a very full and fun life and will be greatly missed. She is survived by her daughter and her cats Willow and Cherie.