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organized a talent show to raise money for new tennis courts that were later built next to the Fire Station on Riverview Road.
She graduated from Grossmont High School in 1932 and San Diego State College in 1936. She taught elementary school for three years and was a substitute teacher for 20 years in the Lakeside Union School District. Then she took on the challenge of serving on the school board.
Some of the awards she received were "Lakeside Citizen of the Year in 1995, Congress of History, 1993, and Woman of Distinction, but there were many others. The granite rock home that she helped her husband build in 1936 was on the Historical Holiday Home Tour. 1997 found Edna on the front porch of the Old Community Church, home to the society, she was leading the charge to burn the mortgage since the $140,000 was all paid off.
Elaine Brack said that Edna is the spark that keeps the society going; and, Roberta Perry added "Like the energizer bunny." Edna celebrated her 90th birthday this year; she said "You're never too old to do . . . something!"
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