Jeanne Portnoff Woods, wife of the late Edwin N. (Bob) Woods, died June 19 in Santa Maria, Calif.

Jeanne was born in San Francisco in 1920 and raised in the Bay area. After her marriage in 1945, she settled on the Suey Ranch in central California, where she was the ranch bookkeeper for 25 years and where she and Bob raised three children.

Jeanne and Bob retired in the early 1970s to a small ranch where they planted a vineyard. During her life there, Jeanne helped move irrigation lines, prune grapes and gather cattle. She was adamant that no gophers would invade her garden or the vineyard. Reflecting upon her active pace, her grandson Henry Bell said: “I remember the speed at which she walked; even at 90 years of age and a foot shorter than me, I could barely keep up.”

For 65 years Jeanne and Bob made the trip from California to the Vineyard, most often by car, and often twice a year, to stay at their home in West Tisbury, where Bob had spent time annually since infancy. Though she was always occupied with projects maintaining the house and property, Jeanne thoroughly enjoyed a social life with family and friends on the Vineyard.

She entertained with home-cooked meals and pies and a dog underfoot to collect crumbs. She bemoaned inclement weather in the daytime as it stopped progress on her project list, saying, “I don’t mind when it rains at night.”

She learned how to cane on the Vineyard and over the years recaned many chair seats, including those in their canoe. She made time for all of her favorite restaurants, events and hiking trails, and was ever on the alert for something new to try. Her friend Ginny Jones said Jeanne reminded her of a Carolina wren — “smart, funny, fast moving and bright-eyed.” Indeed, she was.

Jeanne is survived by her daughter Prudy Noon and her husband John of Martinez, Calif., daughter Francine Woods and her children Margaret and Henry Bell of Long Beach, Calif., and son Edwin N. Woods Jr. and his wife Carline of Santa Maria, Calif.; her sister Eleanor Nelson; brother Alexi Portnoff and his wife Marjorie; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Contributions in her memory may be made to the West Tisbury Library Foundation Building Fund, whose Monday night movies she thoroughly enjoyed, at P.O. Box 1238, West Tisbury 02575, or the Vineyard Conservation Society, P.O. Box 2189, Vineyard Haven 02568, with whom she and Bob had a long association, or to a charity of one’s choice.