A Homeless Sacramento Senior’s Tale Of Life On An $87 Food Budget

By Genoa Barrow | OBSERVER Senior Staff WriterGrowing up in the tranquil Virgin Islands doesn’t mean your life will be a breeze.Marjorie Beazer has called Sacramento home for more than 30 years, but today she doesn’t actually have a home to call her own. Beazer, 61, is currently homeless in the South Sacramento area and is sharing her experience living as a senior facing food insecurity in “the greatest nation in the world.”Beazer has a ton of lived experience. She was in the Army National Guard. She earned a degree in communications, with a minor in government, from Sacramento State. She has worked in education and for the California Military Department as a liaison to the Pentagon. She also attended law school, but didn’t complete those studies. Back in the Caribbean, Beazer served at one point as the counselor at Her Majesty’s Prison for Antigua and Barbuda.“I’ve always had the vision and goal of being the first female to take on the mantle of governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands,” Beazer says.She didn’t foresee being poor and hungry at this stage in her life.“It’s been a journey,” she says.Beazer joined the military in her 20s. She was a mother of...