Nearly every day, a person staying at the Torres Shelter manages to beat homelessness and turn his or her life around.

Now, the shelter has a new, in a long line of the most recent success stories, one of many that prove anyone can get back on their feet.

This story proves how one woman used kindness and perseverance to move out of the shelter, and found a place to live

Marjorie Totten didn't expect to find herself homeless.

At 68 years old, she says she had to escape a domestic violence situation in Tehama County. She said she couldn't afford anything but low-income housing and everything she could afford was full.

“I had an income, a small income, but i couldn't get a rental,” she said.

The sheriff said go to the Torres Shelter in Chico and that's where she found herself…at first, frightened and alone.

“I was scared to death it was a big town, I was used to a little town I knew nobody I was very frightened,” she said.

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