Placer Chapter OWL

The Place County OWL Chapter has sustained several major losses over the past two years. After the sudden death in 2010 of our President, Bea Graham, Marion Faustman has died.

Marion Francis Faustman
Marion Faustman, who was a long-time OWL and the leader several times of the Placer County Chapter of the Older Women’s League, died February 7, 201 at the age of 92.

Like many OWLs, Marion was active in a number of great organizations. She was a member of the Women Democrats of Place County, CA, and received their 2003 Eleanor Roosevelt Award. She served as a member of the Senior Legislature from 1985 until her death, and initiated legislation to help women, seniors, and the disabled. She was also regional chair of the Congress of California Seniors, Chair of the Advisory Council of Area 4 on Aging, and several times President of AARP 1474. In addition, she was a long-time member of the League of Women Voters and presented election and initiative information to many civic groups.

Marion was born in Cameroon, West Africa, at the end of World War I and moved back and forth between her missionary parents in Africa and relatives in the United States. Consequently she had a varied school experience.

She held several jobs to finance a liberal arts education, and was chosen by the Dean of Women as one student who might comfortably converse with Eleanor Roosevelt when she visited the campus. She had a distinguished career in the field of education, and spent her entire life on issues that Eleanor Roosevelt espoused.