Vera Mabel Leone, 101, of Grass Valley lived until Saturday, December 27, 2003, just 12 days before her 102nd birthday. She had resided in Lake Wildwood from 1988 until she could no longer live independently. She lived at Sierra View Manor and then Golden Empire Convalescent Hospital when she passed. No services are planned. She will be interred at Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, California. Mrs. Leone was born January 8, 1902 in Lakeview, Oregon, to Farnham Edwin Harris and Lillie Evelyn Colvin. She was the youngest of three girls and was raised in Lakeview until she was fourteen years old. She graduated from Oakland High School in 1920 and then worked for the Old Bank of Italy, which later became Bank of America, and also for the Maritime Commission and Farm Security Commission. She belonged to the Amaranth and liked to do handiwork, garden, and play cards. She married Charles J. Leone in 1922 and made her home in Oakland, California. In 1908, she came to Grass Valley in a horse and buggy with her dad on the way to Lakeview. They stayed the night in a barn, as there were no hotels and the lady of the house was due to give birth that night and it was not considered acceptable for her to be in the house when the baby was born. When she and her dad awoke the next morning, twins had arrived during the night. That morning they were given a good breakfast and sent on their way. Vera's grandfather, Sidney Colvin, of Lakeview, Oregon, raised horses for the Army at Camp Beale and her cousin, Reason Harris, drove the horses to Camp Beale, now Beale Air Force Base, California. She remembered when World War I started, and she remembered when the armistice was signed. She was in High School then, and worked with the Maritime Commission and Farm Security Commission. Her husband, Charles J. Leone, her son, Douglas Edwin Leone, and two sisters, Virginia Harris and Verda Harris, predeceased her. Granddaughter Michelle Arellano of Milwaukie, OR, and her three children, Charles Luis, Martin Andrew, and Oriana Cecelia, and her grandson, Douglas Andrew Leone of Hilo, HI, and his son, Derrek, survive her, along with her daughter-in-law, Mimi B. Pequin Leone. Arrangements by Chapel of the Angels Mortuary, Grass Valley, CA , (530) 273-2446.