Kern County CA Obituary Project Obituaries.....Pearman, Marilyn I. August 2 2004
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The Bakersfield Californian 
Marilyn I. Pearman
October 12, 1951 August 2, 2004

Marilyn I. Pearman died from injuries sustained in an automobile accident 
while visiting relatives with her mother in Stanbury, Missouri on Monday, 
August 2, 2004. 

Marilyn was born in Bakersfield, California in 1951. She was the beloved 
daughter of Berniece and Don Pearman. Her father predeceased her nine years 
ago. Marilyn leaves behind her beloved life partner, Nancy Grunnet.

She will also be missed by her family, which includes her mother, Bernice; 
sister, Sandra and brother-in-law, Duane Crowley; brother, Steven and sister-
in-law, Linda Pearman. She is also survived by her nieces and nephews, Carolyn 
and Ron Bellamy, Cathleen and Sean Slack, Donovan and Jessica Crowley and 
Nathan and Laurie Pearman, as well as John and Nancy Grunnet, and Paul, Brandy 
and Amy Baptiste. Marilyn will also be missed by her lifelong friend, Annette 
Parsons, a friend since childhood, as well as many, many other friends and 
colleagues.

Marilyn attended Bakersfield High School and received a Bachelor of Arts in 
Communications from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. She lived in Humbolt County and 
San Diego before settling in Sacramento in the early 1980s. There she held 
several positions in state service, serving as the Statewide Womens Program 
Manager for the State Personnel Board, as a Manager of the California 
Department of Health Services Licensing and Certification Program, and, in the 
late 1990s, as an Assistant Director at The Department of Corrections.

After retiring on Halloween 2003, she pursued her lifelong passion for bats 
dedicating her time and energy to bat conservation and rehabilitation. She 
conducted numerous lectures for children and adults on the benefits of bats 
and visited some of the largest bat colonies in the U.S. She worked 24-7-365 
rescuing injured or trapped bats and caring for them until they could be 
released. She was a certified bat rehabilitator, a member of Bat Conservation 
International, as well as a co-founder of the California Native Bat 
Conservancy along with Dharma Webber.

There will be a celebration of her life on Saturday, August 7, at 7:00 p.m., 
at The Spiritual Life Center, 2331 K Street, Sacramento. In lieu of flowers, 
remembrances can be made to The California Native Bat Conservancy, 3461 Mining 
Brook Road, Placerville, CA 95667. 


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