Life in California
When her husband became a professor at the Salk Institute in the 1970s, the Cricks moved to California.
She died from cancer in La Jolla, California, aged 86, three years after her husband. The Odile Crick Memorial Exhibition of her art was held at the Salk Institute, La Jolla, on October 12, 2007
She was survived by a brother Philippe, two daughters Gabrielle and Jacqueline (1954–2011), and two grandchildren, the children of the late Jacqueline and her husband Christopher Nichols; her stepson, Michael (by Francis Crick's first marriage to Ruth Doreen Dodd) has four children: Alexander, Camberley, Francis, and Kindra by his wife Barbara.
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