Anne Marie Israel | 93

Anne Marie Israel is originally from France and has lived in San Francisco since the 1950s. After briefly living in LA with her husband they settled here. He was a Californian who she met in Egypt while they waited for a plan to Italy, and while still young and with four small daughters, she became a single mother when he died by suicide. Many jobs, many years of making friends who became like family, and several husbands later, she found a way to raise her family and is now a great-grandmother of 16. She welcomes the attentiveness and love from them. As an adult she was also an avid biker, on it for hours a day, getting to know our hilly city so notoriously difficult for bikers.

Interview date: 6/6/21

Interviewed by: Anna Chodos

Referred by: Sarah Arnold