Our beloved mother, Charlotte Psota Weyers passed away on December 10, 2023 after several years of dementia. On January 29, 1926, Charlotte Babette was born to William and Elsie Bauer in Boston, MA and this is where she grew up. After completing high school, she worked for Ma Bell, the telephone company, running a PBX switchboard while sitting on a phone book to reach the furthest connections.
Charlotte married Paul Psota in May 1951. The couple raised their two daughters, Diane and Sunshine, while living in small towns in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Later the couple followed their daughters west, spending years living in Lake Havasu City, AZ, and then finding Kelly Ridge in Oroville.
She and Paul were friends with Wayne and Emma Weyers. A few years after Paul and Emma died, Wayne and Charlotte were married in May 2011 and had almost ten years together. She was welcomed into his large family near Palermo where they hosted many gatherings. After Wayne died in 2020, his granddaughter, Wendy Bracy, and her family moved into the family home providing the extra care needed to keep Charlotte there as long as possible. Diane and Sunshine are very grateful to the amazing Bracy family who cared for Charlotte for almost a year and a half. In August 2021, she moved to Daniela County Home Care for the remainder of her life. Charlotte could not have gotten better care. The kind nurses at Freedom Hospice of Marysville assisted her during the last three months before she died.
Charlotte created much joy and laughter wherever she went. Charlotte loved to have fun, and for the last 20 years, she lived near Oroville. Charlotte could talk to anyone and usually did. You could find her swimming and working out at YMCA and Curves, walking over the dam and by the river, attending the Oroville Concert series, and volunteering with Paul at Oroville Library and the Gleaners Food Basket.
You might have met her at the supermarket asking for help to reach the top shelf and then you talked for 20 minutes. She talked to wrong phone numbers, too. Charlotte shared her laughter and stories with many, cherishing her family and treasuring her new acquaintances as well as her long-time friends especially: the Peter Limmer Family (in Boston, and later North Conway, NH), Rose Northway (Boston area), Doris Sheehan (North Easton, MA), Mildred Hunter (West Boylston, MA and beyond), Maria Lucco and Paul O’Connor (Lake Havasu City, AZ), Nadia Blount (Kelly Ridge), Mabel Lager and Johanna Wakley (near Oroville), and her Oroville band of friends Shirley Bachelor, Leigh Johnson, Irene Powe, and Jo Charleston, and many others.
Her adventuresome spirit led her to places where she could swim, walk, or play Uno with friends. As a young woman, Charlotte’s saw Germany from a sidecar of her grandfather’s motor bike during one of several trips there. Every fall in New England she would travel to self-pick apple farms and load up her VW bug with her two daughters, her friends, and as many apples as possible; all while leading a sing along as she drove home. She made great pies, especially with those apples. Before her daughters moved to California in 1978, Charlotte planned a mother-daughter road trip that included Washington, D.C., the Blue Ridge Mountains, and the Amish portion of Pennsylvania. When she and Paul moved to Arizona, they loved traveling to Sedona and the Grand Canyon. They were active in their community and were named Volunteers of the Year in Lake Havasu City, AZ. Charlotte loved to visit the Pacific Ocean at Bodega Head in Sonoma County, and Mendocino and Fort Bragg in Mendocino County.
During a cruise to Alaska, she was dazzled by the brilliant aqua glaciers glowing in her life-long favorite color. Charlotte would take out-of-state visitors to Yosemite to astonish them. In later years she traveled the West with Wayne in his RV.
Charlotte Psota Weyers is survived by her two daughters, Diane and Sunshine Psota (and husband David G. Bieling), all of Sebastopol, CA. She did not want a memorial. If you would like to make a contribution in honor of Charlotte please donate to the YMCA https://operations.daxko.com/online/5252/OnlineG iving/Donation.mvc?campaign_id=649 or PO Box 1171, Oroville, CA 95965 for their Y-Assist Program that provides scholarships to low income individuals, children, or families.