OBITUARY

Longtime community activist Judith Harrington Loos succumbed to cancer at

her Newport Beach home Thursday. She was 59.

The wife of former Daily Pilot Managing Editor C.H. “Chuck” Loos, Mrs.

Loos was involved in countless charitable and government activities.

During the 1960s, Mrs. Loos was an officer of the Sales and Rental

Council, a fund-raising arm of the then-fledgling Newport Harbor Art

Museum.

Representing the Junior League, she was one of a small group of activists

who founded the Assessment, Treatment and Services Center in the 1970s.

She also was the second president for the community-based program, which

aids juveniles in trouble with the law.

Later, as an appointee of late county Supervisor Thomas Riley, Mrs. Loos

served on the Orange County Manpower Commission. It oversaw public

funding of job-training programs in the county during the 1970s and

1980s. She was twice elected to chair the commission.

Her career in real estate and involvement in volunteer activities were

cut short by her initial battle with lung cancer in 1989.

The Orange County native was a graduate of Fullerton High School and UC

Berkeley.

Besides her husband, she is survived by a son, Scott, and

daughter-in-law, Sara, of Hermosa Beach; a daughter, Joan, of Irvine; and

two granddaughters.

Another son, Michael, died in 1991.

Other survivors include her sister, Ann Batnam, of San Rafael, Calif.;

her brother, James Harrington, of Newport Beach; and eight nieces and

nephews.

A memorial service for Loos is scheduled for 11 a.m. Tuesday at St.

Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Newport Beach.

The family has suggested memorial contributions be made to the Hoag

Hospital Foundation/Women’s Cancer Center or to the Beacons’ Fund at St.

Andrew’s Presbyterian Church.