Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Tuesday, November 16, 2010 at 06:46:03 :
Independent Journal
Monday, October 12, 1970
Page 4
Mrs. Pepper, Bolinas, Dies At 86
Marin Waterhouse Pepper of Bolinas, who was named for the county in which she was born 86 years ago, died yesterday in a local hospital, following a long illness.
A descendant of early California settlers, Mrs. Pepper lived her entire life in Bolinas except for the years she spent in boarding school and college.
Her father, Frank Waterhouse, a Sacramento banker, arrived in Bolinas in 1883, took lodgings in the old Flagstaff Inn and tried to buy a lot to build his wife a cottage. When her father couldn’t find a lot for sale, he instead purchased a quarter section of the Juan Briones ranch near the beach and presented it as a gift to his wife, Mrs. Pepper’s mother.
The following year, Mrs. Pepper was born in her parents’ cottage on the hill overlooking what is not Bolinas’s Main Street. She lived in that house until her death.
After a brief stay later in life in Pennsylvania, Mrs. Pepper returned to Bolinas with her family. She was sent to Anna Head school in Berkeley where she graduated in 1902.
She later enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley, but decided to quit in her sophomore year.
She returned to Bolinas and opened a tea shop on the beach front, and in 1911 married Lewis G. Pepper, a member of another old Bolinas family and now a retired contractor.
In 1965, Mrs. Pepper, having reared nine children, turned to writing. Her efforts produced a 181 page history of Marin County and Bolinas titled “A Narrative of the Days of the Dons: Bolinas.”
Besides her husband, she is survived by three daughters, Hazel Evans of Bolinas, Doris King of Felton, Santa Cruz County, and Marie Atkinson of San Jose. She is also survived by five sons, Miles W. Pepper of Denver, Frank G., Charles L., John R., and Donald B. Pepper, all of Bolinas, 19 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
She was a member of the Marin Historical Society and the St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church Guild.
Funeral will be Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. at St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, Bolinas. Burial will follow at the Bolinas Cemetery.
Friends may call at Keaton’s Mortuary, San Rafael, until 9 p.m. tomorrow.
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