Santa Monica resident Sylvia Levin died June 25 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of complications from a stroke. She was 91.
Levin set a record by personally registering more than 47,000 Californians to vote, and was commonly seen in Westside communities where, for 36 years, she spent six days a week signing up new voters. On Fridays, Levin would come to Malibu and set up her card table outside a bank or the post office.
Levin was born Sept. 14, 1917, in Brooklyn, N.Y., and grew up there and in New Jersey. She moved to California in the 1940s, a single mother of two who worked in an aircraft plant, a garment factory, a stall at the original Farmers Market in Los Angeles and as a beach parking lot attendant in Santa Monica.
In addition to her son, a Santa Monica resident, she is survived by daughter Susan Levin of Culver City and sisters Dottie Sadowsky of Manhattan and Daisy Neustadt of Willingboro, N.J.
Private funeral services are planned, and a memorial service is being organized for September, Weiner said. Donations in her memory may be made to the First Vote, P.O. Box 241870, Los Angeles, CA 90024.