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Remembering Iola Brubeck

on Mar 12, 2014

Iola Whitlock Brubeck, the widow and lifelong collaborator of jazz great Dave Brubeck, died on March 12, 2014, after a battle with cancer. This gallery looks back at her extraordinary life and celebrates her accomplishments as an educator, librettist, lyricist, manager, producer, writer, wife, mother, and Pacific alumna. Read more about her life in "Pacific Mourns the Passing of Iola Brubeck." For more photos from the life of Iola Brubeck, please visit The Brubeck Collection, part of the Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library.