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Point Reyes Light
Thursday, October 15, 1970
MARIN WATERHOUSE PEPPER
A life-long resident of Bolinas, Marin Waterhouse Pepper, daughter of an early settler, died Sunday in a local hospital following an extended illness. She was 86.
Her father, a Sacramento banker, Frank Waterhouse, arrived in Bolinas in 1883 and purchased a quarter section of the Juan Briones Ranch near the beach. Mrs. Pepper was born in her parent’s cottage built on a hill overlooking what became Bolinas’s Main Street. She continued to live in the memory filled cottage until her death.
Mrs. Pepper graduated from the Anna Head School in Berkeley in 1902. She attended the University of California at Berkeley and later opened a beach front tea shop in Bolinas.
In 1911 she married Lewis G. Pepper, a retired contractor, also a member of an early Bolinas family. The couple became the parents of nine children.
At the age of 81 Mrs. Pepper turned her attention toward historical writing, producing in 1965 a 181-page book titled, “A Narrative of the Days of the Dons: Bolinas.”
In addition to her husband, Mrs. Pepper is survived by three daughters, Hazel Evans of Bolinas, Marie Atkinson of San Jose and Doris King of Felton, Santa Cruz County. Also surviving are five sons, four of which reside in Bolinas: Frank G., John R., Charles L., and Donald B. Pepper. A fifth son Miles W. Pepper is a resident of Denver. Other survivors include 19 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Pepper was a member of the St. Aidan’s Church Guild and the Marin Historical Society.
Funeral was held Wednesday at St. Aidan’s Church in Bolinas. Burial followed in the Bolinas Cemetery.
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