PIEDMONT, CALIFORNIA.- Designer Judith Arango Henderson, 75, died of pancreatic cancer. She was born in Florida and studied philosophy at Wellesley College. She created in 1981 the Arango Design Foundation to promote education about the role of design in every day life. Judith Arango divorced Jorge Arango and then married attorney John Henderson, who said of her: “She devoted her whole life to the business of good design." Judith Arango wrote the column titled “Design of the Month” for the San Francisco Chronicle.

Judith Arango wrote in her November 2002 column: “Unless we are among the lucky few who live or work amid great natural beauty or alluring art, the aesthetic tone of our lives is established by the everyday things with which we surround ourselves. The clothes we wear, the cars we drive, the dishes with which we set the table, our furniture, our gadgets, our toothbrushes." The Wolfosnian Design Museum will host a memorial service in the fall.