 August 2009Marylouise Allen Lovett PassesMarylouise Allen Lovett, 79, died peacefully on July 4, 2009 in San Francisco, after several years of living with Alzheimer’s. Born in Wallowa, Oregon, Lovett was the third of four siblings. Her ancestors crossed the continental United States in Conestoga wagons, and settled in eastern Oregon. She left Corvallis, Oregon in 1952 for San Francisco, the nearest big city the offered politics and jazz, her two life-long passions. Lovett pursued a career as a freelance campaign manager for city, state and national candidates and issues. A supporter of labor unions, she eventually worked for the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians and the AFL-CIO, taking leaves of absence to run campaigns when inspired. Lovett cared deeply about civil rights and justice, peace, women’s issues, equality and economic parity. In 1965, she volunteered with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Mississippi, working on the Voting Rights Act campaign. Lovett served as a delegate to the United Nations Conference on Women in Beijing, China and was a Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom delegate to the World Peace Conference in Budapest, Hungary. During the 1970s she campaigned for district elections, and was instrumental in extending the times that voting precincts stayed open, making it easier for working people to vote. Lovett held many volunteer leadership positions, including president, San Francisco Young Democrats, and State Chairman, California Young Democrats; Board President, Potrero Hill Neighborhood House; and President, Women’s Democratic Forum. In 1988 a tribute to Lovett was published in the Congressional Record at the bequest of U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi. In 1999 Lovett received the Democratic Women’s Forum Eleanor Roosevelt Award. Lovett is predeceased by her husband of 45 years, Richard Lovett; and is survived by her daughter Rachel Lovett, and stepchildren Peter, Mary Karen and Michaela Lovett. |
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