Iva M. Bushman, 95; Volunteer, Silent Film Idol’s Widow
Iva Millicent Bushman, a former California commissioner on aging who had recently marked her 30th year of volunteer work, died April 14 at her Pacific Palisades home. The widow of film idol Francis X. Bushman was 95.
After Francis Bushman’s death in 1966, she carried on some of the county, city and state volunteer roles he had assumed. She was or had been head of the American Institute of Fine Arts, director of the Brentwood/Westwood Symphony Orchestra Assn., a member of the Friends of Music at Cal State Los Angeles and on the board of the Hollywood Bowl Easter Sunrise Service.
In recognition of her many activities she had been presented a Medal of Merit from President Reagan, who as governor of California had named her to the Commission on Aging.
She had become Bushman’s fifth wife in 1956.
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