Margaret Framm — 1918 – 2024

“I haven’t got time to die yet!”

Margaret Framm on turning 105 in 2023.

Margaret Framm died peacefully in her home, surrounded by family, on July 5th , 2024. Margaret was
born in Portland, Oregon on July 6th, 1918 and died a day before her 106th birthday.

Her parents were Judge Hall S. Lusk and Catherine Emmons Lusk of Portland, Oregon. Judge Lusk was appointed to the United States Senate in 1960, after the death of sitting Senator Richard L. Neuberger. Judge Lusk served on the Oregon State Supreme Court from 1937 – 1968, and was long-lived, as was his wife, Catherine. Both lived until the age of 100.

As a young woman, Margaret had been studying to be a Court Reporter, training on the stenotype.
When WW2 came, she volunteered to be a “Government Girl”. She moved to Washington D.C., where
she worked as a stenographer for the War Department, U.S. Patent Office.

In 1944, as the war progressed, she joined the American Red Cross. With no knowledge of where she
would be stationed, she boarded the R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth for England. She was stationed at the 34th General Hospital near Winchester, U.K, as a Hospital Secretary, and was assigned the rank of 2nd Lieutenant. After 2 years in Winchester, she was transferred to London.

Finally, she returned to her home in Portland, Oregon, and then moved to San Francisco, sharing an
apartment in the Haight.

In 1946, while swimming in the ocean at Stinson Beach, she met her future husband, Edgar. Born in
Taltal, Chile of German parents, he was living in North Beach, San Francisco, working at the Bank of
America International Division. Margaret happened to be working only blocks from him in the Financial
District, at Dean Witter Brokerage. 6 months later they married in Portland, Oregon. They had three
daughters; the first two, Catherine and Hedi, were born in San Francisco. The third, Barbara, was born in Dusseldorf, Germany, where the family lived for three memorable years.

Returning to the Bay Area, they settled in San Anselmo in 1957.

After her children were grown, she returned to work, working as a dispatcher at the Fairfax Police Dept. Later she worked for many years as a school secretary at both Isabel Cook and Hidden Valley schools, jobs that she loved.

She was an avid supporter and longtime member of the Marin Symphony, serving on the Board in the
early years, under conductor Sandor Salgo. She attended her final concert at the age of 105, where she was honored by conductor Alasdair Neale.

She loved hiking, walking, exercise, the beach, eating, dieting, reading the New York Times and
sometimes more than a book a week. She was a devoted yoga practitioner and practiced until a few
months before her death.

She is survived by 3 daughters, Catherine Framm (Berlin, Germany), Hedi Framm Anton (San
Francisco), and Barbara Framm (San Anselmo), 4 grandchildren, Tara Pandeya, Clara Eckert-
Framm, Ghio Anton (Orina) and Paolo Anton, and 1 great-grandchild, Maya Eckert-Framm.
A longtime member of St. Rita’s Catholic Church in Fairfax, Ca., her memorial Mass and celebration of
life will be held on the Autumn Equinox, September 22, 2024 at St. Rita’s.