Lesta Isabelle Davidson Faxon, BHS 1920
The Tribune, Wednesday, April 1, 1998
Lesta Isabelle Faxon, 94, of Cambria
died Monday, March 30, 1998, at a San Luis Obispo hospital. Funeral services
will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at Reis Chapel in Cayucos, the Rev. Walter
Robie officiating. Burial will be at a later date at Cambria Community Cemetery.
Mrs. Faxon was born April 8, 1905, in El
Monte and was raised and educated in Burbank. She attended UCLA with a major in
general education. In 1923 she married Lee Buffington who preceded her in death
in 1966. She married Webster Faxon in 1979, he died in 1991. Mrs. Faxon worked
as a medical secretary for Dr. Erwin Pratt in Burbank for 20 years. She had
been a resident of Cambria since 1964.
Among her interests were fancy handwork
and beading and gardening. She was a member of the Eastern Star Lodge No. 352
of Burbank and the Native Daughters of the Golden West of Cambria.
She is survived by a son, David L.
Buffington of Kerrville, Texas; a daughter, Marjorie Maine of Santa Clara;
grandsons Forest Buffington of Gallup, N.M. and Mark Maine of Yorba Linda,
granddaughters Kathy Ruess of Albuquerque, N.M., and Marcia Jordan of Elgin,
Texas; and nine great-grandchildren.
Arrangements are by Reis Chapel in
Cayucos.
