She did artwork, painted and fired china, making all of her wedding plates. The talent of painting and drawing was quite high in her family. She also did some needlework creating costumes for her daughters' dance classes as well as attention getting dresses.
Elsie did not complete high school, choosing instead to attend the Battle Creek Sanitarium where she was youngest in her nursing graduation class. Her father, Charles, was very proud of her graduation and gave her a fine gold watch, a memento the family still has.
Elsie's career as a nurse took her, besides her work at Battle Creek Sanitarium (a famed Seventh Day Adventist School, run by renowned Dr Kellogg -- it recommended eating no meats and Elsie raised her children without meat in their childhood), to nursing near the stockyards in Chicago and in NY City at Bellevue Sanitarium. While in NY City, Elsie managed to see all of the Ziegfield Follies, her entrancement with the glamore of show girls and the stage remaining with her throughout life. She later collected picture histories of some of the best known Hollywood stars.
Family moved to Ann Arbor in her early childhood where her father ran a grocery store as did another of his brothers a few blocks away. The Charles F Pardon block on Main St in Ann Arbor was named after him. He also ran a meat market within the store. He and his wife Augusta lived above the store and there were boarders who were workers in the store.
Elsie was a tomboy, playing with her brothers at the Huron River, climbing trees and other boyish activities. She always thought her younger sister, Olga, was prettier than she and, by putting a high premium on beauty, managed to create it wherever she could.
She married a student, Chalmer Williams, whom she met in Ann Arbor where he attended the University on Michigan. Chalmer was a forestry student and he went on to form a lumber business in the timber-cutting country of Arkansas. After their wedding, a double ceremony with sister, Olga, who married a law student, Clarence Kellogg, Chalmer and Elsie moved to Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Here their three children were born. Chalmer's lumber mill was located 40 miles to the south of Pine Bluff and he commuted between there and the family home in Pine Bluff.
When the Depression struck and the lumber mill business declined, they moved on to California. Grandma Augusta Pardon sent them $500 which they immediately used for a down payment on a house in Beverly Hills. Houses were going cheaply during that Depression era.
Elsie lived in Beverly Hills for 51 years before she died and Chalmer [lived until his death]. Ruth, the oldest child, remained with him and Priscilla, married to Tom Follett, now comes home for part of each year. This was originally so she could help take care of Elsie, who was bedridden her last 2 years before she passed away. Elsie's son David also lives in Beverly Hills.
Elsie did not complete high school, choosing instead to attend the Battle Creek Sanitarium where she was youngest in her nursing graduation class. Her father, Charles, was very proud of her graduation and gave her a fine gold watch, a memento the family still has.
Elsie's career as a nurse took her, besides her work at Battle Creek Sanitarium (a famed Seventh Day Adventist School, run by renowned Dr Kellogg -- it recommended eating no meats and Elsie raised her children without meat in their childhood), to nursing near the stockyards in Chicago and in NY City at Bellevue Sanitarium. While in NY City, Elsie managed to see all of the Ziegfield Follies, her entrancement with the glamore of show girls and the stage remaining with her throughout life. She later collected picture histories of some of the best known Hollywood stars.
Family moved to Ann Arbor in her early childhood where her father ran a grocery store as did another of his brothers a few blocks away. The Charles F Pardon block on Main St in Ann Arbor was named after him. He also ran a meat market within the store. He and his wife Augusta lived above the store and there were boarders who were workers in the store.
Elsie was a tomboy, playing with her brothers at the Huron River, climbing trees and other boyish activities. She always thought her younger sister, Olga, was prettier than she and, by putting a high premium on beauty, managed to create it wherever she could.
She married a student, Chalmer Williams, whom she met in Ann Arbor where he attended the University on Michigan. Chalmer was a forestry student and he went on to form a lumber business in the timber-cutting country of Arkansas. After their wedding, a double ceremony with sister, Olga, who married a law student, Clarence Kellogg, Chalmer and Elsie moved to Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Here their three children were born. Chalmer's lumber mill was located 40 miles to the south of Pine Bluff and he commuted between there and the family home in Pine Bluff.
When the Depression struck and the lumber mill business declined, they moved on to California. Grandma Augusta Pardon sent them $500 which they immediately used for a down payment on a house in Beverly Hills. Houses were going cheaply during that Depression era.
Elsie lived in Beverly Hills for 51 years before she died and Chalmer [lived until his death]. Ruth, the oldest child, remained with him and Priscilla, married to Tom Follett, now comes home for part of each year. This was originally so she could help take care of Elsie, who was bedridden her last 2 years before she passed away. Elsie's son David also lives in Beverly Hills.
She did artwork, painted and fired china, making all of her wedding plates. The talent of painting and drawing was quite high in her family. She also did some needlework creating costumes for her daughters' dance classes as well as attention getting dresses.
Elsie did not complete high school, choosing instead to attend the Battle Creek Sanitarium where she was youngest in her nursing graduation class. Her father, Charles, was very proud of her graduation and gave her a fine gold watch, a memento the family still has.
Elsie's career as a nurse took her, besides her work at Battle Creek Sanitarium (a famed Seventh Day Adventist School, run by renowned Dr Kellogg -- it recommended eating no meats and Elsie raised her children without meat in their childhood), to nursing near the stockyards in Chicago and in NY City at Bellevue Sanitarium. While in NY City, Elsie managed to see all of the Ziegfield Follies, her entrancement with the glamore of show girls and the stage remaining with her throughout life. She later collected picture histories of some of the best known Hollywood stars.
Family moved to Ann Arbor in her early childhood where her father ran a grocery store as did another of his brothers a few blocks away. The Charles F Pardon block on Main St in Ann Arbor was named after him. He also ran a meat market within the store. He and his wife Augusta lived above the store and there were boarders who were workers in the store.
Elsie was a tomboy, playing with her brothers at the Huron River, climbing trees and other boyish activities. She always thought her younger sister, Olga, was prettier than she and, by putting a high premium on beauty, managed to create it wherever she could.
She married a student, Chalmer Williams, whom she met in Ann Arbor where he attended the University on Michigan. Chalmer was a forestry student and he went on to form a lumber business in the timber-cutting country of Arkansas. After their wedding, a double ceremony with sister, Olga, who married a law student, Clarence Kellogg, Chalmer and Elsie moved to Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Here their three children were born. Chalmer's lumber mill was located 40 miles to the south of Pine Bluff and he commuted between there and the family home in Pine Bluff.
When the Depression struck and the lumber mill business declined, they moved on to California. Grandma Augusta Pardon sent them $500 which they immediately used for a down payment on a house in Beverly Hills. Houses were going cheaply during that Depression era.
Elsie lived in Beverly Hills for 51 years before she died and Chalmer [lived until his death]. Ruth, the oldest child, remained with him and Priscilla, married to Tom Follett, now comes home for part of each year. This was originally so she could help take care of Elsie, who was bedridden her last 2 years before she passed away. Elsie's son David also lives in Beverly Hills.
Elsie did not complete high school, choosing instead to attend the Battle Creek Sanitarium where she was youngest in her nursing graduation class. Her father, Charles, was very proud of her graduation and gave her a fine gold watch, a memento the family still has.
Elsie's career as a nurse took her, besides her work at Battle Creek Sanitarium (a famed Seventh Day Adventist School, run by renowned Dr Kellogg -- it recommended eating no meats and Elsie raised her children without meat in their childhood), to nursing near the stockyards in Chicago and in NY City at Bellevue Sanitarium. While in NY City, Elsie managed to see all of the Ziegfield Follies, her entrancement with the glamore of show girls and the stage remaining with her throughout life. She later collected picture histories of some of the best known Hollywood stars.
Family moved to Ann Arbor in her early childhood where her father ran a grocery store as did another of his brothers a few blocks away. The Charles F Pardon block on Main St in Ann Arbor was named after him. He also ran a meat market within the store. He and his wife Augusta lived above the store and there were boarders who were workers in the store.
Elsie was a tomboy, playing with her brothers at the Huron River, climbing trees and other boyish activities. She always thought her younger sister, Olga, was prettier than she and, by putting a high premium on beauty, managed to create it wherever she could.
She married a student, Chalmer Williams, whom she met in Ann Arbor where he attended the University on Michigan. Chalmer was a forestry student and he went on to form a lumber business in the timber-cutting country of Arkansas. After their wedding, a double ceremony with sister, Olga, who married a law student, Clarence Kellogg, Chalmer and Elsie moved to Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Here their three children were born. Chalmer's lumber mill was located 40 miles to the south of Pine Bluff and he commuted between there and the family home in Pine Bluff.
When the Depression struck and the lumber mill business declined, they moved on to California. Grandma Augusta Pardon sent them $500 which they immediately used for a down payment on a house in Beverly Hills. Houses were going cheaply during that Depression era.
Elsie lived in Beverly Hills for 51 years before she died and Chalmer [lived until his death]. Ruth, the oldest child, remained with him and Priscilla, married to Tom Follett, now comes home for part of each year. This was originally so she could help take care of Elsie, who was bedridden her last 2 years before she passed away. Elsie's son David also lives in Beverly Hills.
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