Frances Price Davidson

Profile Updated: July 9, 2016
Frances Price
Residing In Medford, OR USA
Occupation Investment Services Office Manager/Operations Administration
Children Idon Weston Bryant, born 1969
Yes! Attending Reunion
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Moved to Washington, DC after graduating from MAC to study Fine Arts at Corcoran School of Art, Married Mike Bryant there in 1968 (Leland James Bryant, Class of 66/yearbook photographer), then moved to upstate NY to continue painting and art studies. When that marriage ended, I moved to Detroit MI and worked in a glass factory to make enough money to relocate to Berkeley CA in '74. I performed at a range of different jobs including restaurant work (Berkeley is considered to be the "Gourmet Ghetto" in the foodie realm), and manufacturing, before I became a Candle and Incense maker, which I did for 5 years. In 1980 I began a career in the Financial Services/Investment Industry, starting with Charles Schwab Co., at their Corp HQ in San Francisco, which was then a small start-up company. I met my husband Nelson Davidson, a Niagara Falls, NY native, in SF in 1982. After 12 years in Corporate Management, I left Schwab, and took a job at Prudential Securities where I continued to work at the Operations level. That firm relocated me to Carmel, CA where we lived for 5 years. While living on the Central Coast, I became a Docent at the Monterey Museum of Art. After 4 years working for PRU I moved on to become an Office Manager for a Stone Mason whose firm built bridges in the Monterey, CA area, then from there; accepted a Financial Services Practice Manager and PA job for a founder of Associated Securities Corp. based out of Century City, CA, who worked out of his homes at Pebble Beach and Scottsdale, AZ and was hired to manage his office in Carmel. In 2000, Nelson and I relocated to Oregon after being hired by a State of Oregon licensed, Registered Investment Advisor's office located in Ashland, OR and with whom I have now worked for 16 years. I can honestly say and truly believe work within the financial services industry to be noble work.

My personal ethos is to be fearless in the world. I value the importance of knowledge, compassion and clarity, spent a few years studying Eastern religions and became a Buddhist in 1977. I still read voraciously, am a Civil War buff, and remain a hopeless optimist who believes life is terminal and how one dies is merely a detail. It's how one lives that counts.

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Jul 09, 2016 at 3:39 PM