Later Life
Fain became a custom home builder in Georgetown, California, in the 1970s. In 1985 the Placerville, California police department raided his home where they found several marijuana plants in his possession. He was charged with growing marijuana and sentenced to five years probation. In 1988, the police conducted another raid at his home, where he was found growing another 400 plants of marijuana in a barn used as a grow house. Fain was charged with possession to sale marijuana and was held without bail. He was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment. In a 1994 interview with The Sacramento Bee, Fain discussed how he "knew how to grow the stuff. I was as adept at it as I was in playing baseball", and that he was trying to make a living out of it.
Ferris Fain died October 18, 2001 at the age of 80, in Georgetown, California from complications from leukemia and diabetes.
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