1.0 Nancy M. (Garred/ Gerred) (Elton) Rambo (1856-1928).
Nancy M. (Garred/Gerred) (Elton) Rambo (1856-1928) relaxes with her granddaughters, Margaret A. Werner (b. Jan 1924) and Nancy C. Werner (b. July 1926), at home in Yolo, Yolo County, California, circa end of 1926 to mid- Jan 1927.
Nancy M. (Garred)(Elton) Rambo's Death Notification, Woodland Daily Democrat, Wednesday, Octobert 10, 1928:
Yolo, Yolo Co., California.
"Funeral services for Mrs. Nancy Margaret Rambo, 72, pioneer resident of this county, who passed away at her home in Yolo Tuesday night, will be held Friday morning at 10 o'clock from the Methodist church in Yolo. Burial will be in Mary's cemetery. The Krellenberg company has charge of the arrangements. Death came Tuesday night at 8 o'clock following a sudden and acute heart attack. Mrs. Rambo had suffering [sic] from heart disorders for several years, but last night's attack came without warning. She was a native of Monroe, Oregon. Her first husband, Nathan Monroe Elton, was one of the pioneers of California, having settled in Placer county in 1849. He died on November 3, 1893. [Note: According to the 1850 US Census, Nathan Monroe Elton, age 24, was still living at home with his recently widowed father, Salmon Elton, in Groton, Erie Co., Ohio, along with his sisters Clarecey and Sarah Elton, and youngest brother Linus]. She was married 18 years ago to C. G. Rambo, who, with the following children are the survivors: Eugene Elton of Winters, George Elton of Woodland, Marvin Elton of Alameda, Mrs. Richard Werner of San Jose and Mrs. Esther Wakefield of Sacramento. She is also survived by 17 grand children and 17 great-grand children. Mrs. Rambo was a resident of Yolo for 60 years and one of the best known women in the county."
(Source: www.newspapers.com)
Yolo, Yolo Co., California.
"Funeral services for Mrs. Nancy Margaret Rambo, 72, pioneer resident of this county, who passed away at her home in Yolo Tuesday night, will be held Friday morning at 10 o'clock from the Methodist church in Yolo. Burial will be in Mary's cemetery. The Krellenberg company has charge of the arrangements. Death came Tuesday night at 8 o'clock following a sudden and acute heart attack. Mrs. Rambo had suffering [sic] from heart disorders for several years, but last night's attack came without warning. She was a native of Monroe, Oregon. Her first husband, Nathan Monroe Elton, was one of the pioneers of California, having settled in Placer county in 1849. He died on November 3, 1893. [Note: According to the 1850 US Census, Nathan Monroe Elton, age 24, was still living at home with his recently widowed father, Salmon Elton, in Groton, Erie Co., Ohio, along with his sisters Clarecey and Sarah Elton, and youngest brother Linus]. She was married 18 years ago to C. G. Rambo, who, with the following children are the survivors: Eugene Elton of Winters, George Elton of Woodland, Marvin Elton of Alameda, Mrs. Richard Werner of San Jose and Mrs. Esther Wakefield of Sacramento. She is also survived by 17 grand children and 17 great-grand children. Mrs. Rambo was a resident of Yolo for 60 years and one of the best known women in the county."
(Source: www.newspapers.com)
2.6 Clara (Elton) Werner (1888-1964).
Clara Belle Elton (1888-1964) as a young woman. A 1908 graduate of Woodland High School, Woodland, California, this photograph of Clara was probably taken sometime in the early 1910s, probably in Woodland, Yolo County, California. In 1910 Clara, age 21, worked as a clerk in a retail drugstore in Woodland, while still living at home with her mother and step-father, C. G. Rambo, in Cacheville (=Yolo), Yolo County, California. By late 1915 she was performing as an actress in musical theater in Woodland and Sacramento, California. In 1920 she was living on her own in Woodland, California, working as a nurse in a dentist's office. In 1921 she was giving private music lessons around Yolo County, California, no doubt getting around in her new 1921 Ford coupe which was registered in her name.
Clara Belle Elton is seated on the left holding one of her brother Dick Elton's sons (most likely 3.5.2 Gerald C. "Jed" Elton, b. July 1911),at a multi-family gathering of Elton's, Shroy's, Stackpole's, and Murphy's, Woodland, Yolo County, California, very late (likely December) 1913.
The Werner-Elton Wedding Party: Clara Belle (Elton) Werner (left) poses with her groom, Richard J. Werner (standing in back, his face partially obscured by Clara's hat) at 401 31st St., Sacramento, Calif., the home of Mrs. Esther Elton-Stannert in the late afternoon of June 7, 1922. 3.2.1 Beatrice (Elton) Alford (Mrs. Roy Alford) is the woman in the dark-colored frock and stands to the right of her Aunt Clara. Linking arms with Beatrice is her cousin, 3.4.1 Miss Ruth Marie Stannert (b. Dec 1905), the fiancee of Robert Lawrence, Jr., who is standing to the far right. The taller gentleman in back is probably Mr. Werner's best man, James Bosse of Guinda, California. The Werner-Elton wedding was not the only wedding held at Esther Elton-Stannert's Sacramento house that afternoon. Immediately following Clara B. Elton and Richard J. Werner's wedding, a second wedding ceremony took place uniting Clara's niece, Margaret I. Elton (1902-1960), with Albert M. Lauritsen (1900-1971) of Napa, California.
The Richard J. Werner family circa 1928. Clara (Elton) Werner (1888-1964) stands to the left of her husband, Richard J. Werner (1894-1978) possibly during a visit to Clara's mother, Nancy M. (Elton) Rambo in Yolo, Yolo
County, California. Standing in front are their daughters, Nancy Claire Werner (b. July 1926) and Margaret Ann Werner (b. Jan 1924).
Clara B. (Elton) Werner sits with her daughters Nancy Claire Werner (left) and Margaret Anne Werner (right), circa 1928, possibly during a visit to Clara's mother, Nancy M. (Garred) (Elton) Rambo in Yolo, Yolo County, California.
Clara B. (Elton) Werner (center) entertains at the Werner's home at 4229 Harbord Drive (renumbered 4339 Harbord Dr. at some point) in Oakland, California, circa 1936 or 1937. Seated to the right are Nancy C. Werner (far right), her grandmother and mother of Richard J. Werner, Anna Margaret (Weidner) Werner (1870-1965), and Margaret A. Werner (face partially obscured).
The photo of the young girl (left), which had "... Elton" written in old fashioned script on the back, was positively identified as Claire "Clara" Belle Elton (1888-1964), circa 1894, at a studio in Yolo County or Sacramento, California by a grand niece. Clara B. (Elton) Werner sometime in the mid- 1930s Oakland, California (center) and again as a new grandmother, late December 1950 (right).
Left: Woodland Daily Democrat, Nov. 11, 1915, p. 1; Right: San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 22, 1913, p. 13
Sources: www. newspapers.com
Sources: www. newspapers.com
Above: Woodland Daily Democrat, 28 April 1922, p.8, (Woodland, California) announcing the upcoming marriage of Clara B. Elton to Richard J. Werner, then principle of Esparto Union High School, Esparto, California.
Links:
2.6 Newspaper Account of the Double Wedding of Clara B. Elton-Richard J. Werner and Margaret I. Elton-Albert M. Lauritsen, June 7, 1922, in Sacramento, California:
http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SU19220608.2.46
2.6 Newspaper Account of the Double Wedding of Clara B. Elton-Richard J. Werner and Margaret I. Elton-Albert M. Lauritsen, June 7, 1922, in Sacramento, California:
http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SU19220608.2.46
3.6.1 Margaret (Werner) Wier (1924-2009).
Margaret A. (Werner) Wier (1924-2009) and John Burnham Wier (1925-1982) (center) pose for the camera at their wedding reception, San Diego, California, December 30, 1948. Clara B. (Elton) Werner and Richard J. Werner stand to the left of their daughter-bride, while the parents of the bridegroom, Hazel (Burnham) Wier and Joseph Lamar Wier (the groom's step-father) stand to the right.
Margaret A. Werner with her grandmother Anna M. (Weidner) Werner (1870-1965) and younger sister, Nancy C. Werner, at the Werner cabin on the Bean Creek Property, 600 Lockhart Gulch Road, Scotts Valley, California, circa 1928-1930 (above three photos). The property (which was bought circa 1925 and sold in 1967 or 1968) is located deep in the redwood forests of the Santa Cruz Mountains, 6 miles north of Santa Cruz, California. The cabin can be seen in the title photo at the top of this page (Old Photos 2.6+) and can still be seen to this day (google search address at zillow.com).
Margaret A. Werner (1924-2009) with her younger sister, Nancy C. Werner (1926-2015), at their parents home in San Jose, California, circa 1931.
Margaret A. Werner (front right) with her younger sister, Nancy C. Werner (front left), mother, Clara B. (Elton) Werner (left center), and unidentified woman (right center), in front of the Werner's home at 4229 Harbord Drive, (renumbered to 4339 Harbord Dr. at some point) Oakland, California, circa 1936 or 1937.
The Richard J. Werner family of Salinas, California, stop off at the Great Salt Lake resort near Salt Lake City, Utah, on their way to a Rotary Club speaking engagement in Denver, Colorado, June 1941. Salinas Jr. College President and Rotary Club speaker, Richard J. Werner (center) stands behind his wife, Clara B. (Elton) Werner (left center without bathing cap), and two high-school age daughters, Margaret A. Werner (second from right) and Nancy C. Werner (far right). This is the Werner girls first trip outside of California.
Margaret A. Werner, Salinas High School senior class picture (class of '42), Salinas, California, circa 1941-1942 (left). UC Berkeley college graduate (1948) and San Diego Gas & Electric Company Home Service Department Instructor, Margaret A. Werner, will conduct cooking classes using the new SD G&E electric ranges, San Diego, California, circa 1948-1949.
Margaret A. Werner (holding white gloves on right) (b. January 1924) and her sister Nancy C. Werner (b. July 1926) steppin' out on Market Street, San Francisco, California circa 1946 or 1947. Note the white gloves and snappy attire. Both were college students in the Bay Area at the time -- Nancy having just started classes at San Jose State in San Jose, California in the fall of 1946, while Margaret was taking classes at UC Berkeley in the east Bay.
Graduation day, June 12, 1948, University of California at Berkeley. Margaret A. Werner (BA, Nutrition and Diatetics) poses with her mother, Clara B. (Elton) Werner at Memorial Stadium, June 12, 1948, shortly after President Harry S. Truman, who had given the commencement address that afternoon, had left the stadium with his motorcade. The graduate and her mother celebrate afterwards at their shared apartment near the campus's main entrance. Clara would graduate from UC Berkeley the following year (June 1949) with a BA in English.
UC Berkeley campus, Berkeley California, 1949. Mrs. Clara (Elton) Werner (1888-1964), second from right in cap and gown, checks out a voucher certificate for a diploma from UC Berkeley , June 1949. Standing next to her(third from right) is her daughter, Margaret A. (Werner) Wier (1924-2009), who had graduated from Cal the previous June (1948). In handwriting on the back of the photo, Margaret wrote [to her sister Nancy, who was working in Germany at the time]: "Here we are -- Sis, me, Mom, Kay Reynolds. -- You knew her didn't you? Her husband Glen took the picture." Kay Reynolds, whose husband Glen took the photo, was presumably a friend of the family's. Margaret identified the woman standing to the far left in the photo as "Sis" which suggests a close relationship to her. She looks amazingly like and almost certainly is 3.5.4 Violet "Vi" Flanders, a niece of Clara (Elton) Werner's
(and therefore first cousin to Margaret), who must have driven the 2 hours from Sacramento to Berkeley to attend her aunt's graduation ceremony. 3.6.1 Margaret (Werner) Wier, who had recently married in southern California (m. 30 Dec 1948), would have driven up from San Diego. The commencement was held at Edward's Field (Cal's Track and Field Stadium) that year which is probably the vicinity of the photo, near the western main entrance to campus. The large, white building is most likely Mulford Hall (completed 1948).
(and therefore first cousin to Margaret), who must have driven the 2 hours from Sacramento to Berkeley to attend her aunt's graduation ceremony. 3.6.1 Margaret (Werner) Wier, who had recently married in southern California (m. 30 Dec 1948), would have driven up from San Diego. The commencement was held at Edward's Field (Cal's Track and Field Stadium) that year which is probably the vicinity of the photo, near the western main entrance to campus. The large, white building is most likely Mulford Hall (completed 1948).
3.6.2 Nancy (Werner) Dulin (1926-2015).
Nancy C. Werner (1926-2015) of Salinas, California and fiancee Sergeant First Class Ralph W. Dulin (1927-1996) of Missouri pose for a snapshot on the Hauptstrasse, Heidelberg, Germany in late 1949. The two met while she worked as a civilian clerk stenographer for the US Armed Forces Europe headquartered at Heidelberg, and he was stationed with the 7774th Signal Battalion also headquartered at Heidelberg. Their wedding would be held by candlelight at the Providence church (Providenzkirche) in Heidelberg, Germany, on the evening of February 18, 1950.
Nancy C. Werner helps promote the health benefits of drinking milk in a northern California newspaper photo circa 1935 (left). Her father, Richard J. Werner, served as Research Director and Adviser for the California Dairy Council in the 1920s and 30s. Undated photo of Nancy C. Werner (right) circa 1937, Oakland, California.
Seventh grade class photo, Salinas, California, Fall 1938 (School Year 1938-1939). Nancy C. Werner is seated
in the front row, third girl from the right.
Nancy C. Werner (third from right) among friends in undated photo probably circa 1938 or 1939, Salinas, California.
Nancy C. Werner in the backyard of her home at 333 Lorimer in Salinas, California in undated photo circa 1942. She is photographed here with her beloved Pomeranian. (Her father, Salinas Jr. College President Richard John Werner, also had a college office/ residence at 80 Carmel Avenue.)
Trip back east to spend with Nancy Werner's father, Lt. Col. Richard J. Werner, who was attending the AMGOT course in Charlottsville, Virginia, June-August, 1943. (AMGOT was the Allied Military Government for Occupied Territory. To feed into this new group the U.S. War Department established the School of Military Government at the UVA campus to train military officers to govern liberated territory as part of the Allies' anticipated victory and occupation of liberated European countries during WW2). The trip included stops at Mammoth Cave in Kentucky (above) and the bicentennial celebration of Thomas Jefferson's birth at the University of Virginia at Charlottsville, July, 1943. Nancy Werner, who at the time had just finished her junior year at Salinas High School, Salinas, California, is seated front row, fifth from left. Her mother, Mrs. Clara Werner, is seated in the front row, fourth from the right.
The Werner girls on their way back home (probably California, but possibly back to their accommodations in Mexico City) stop by a peasant's house in the Mexican countryside, summer, 1946, after a sightseeing trip to Taxco, Mexico. Margaret A. Werner (b. Jan 1924) is standing to the left of her sister, Nancy C. Werner (b. July 1926). The girls were taking classes offered by Mexico's National University as part of a summer school program, 1946. Summer school in Mexico was Margaret's idea after she saw an ad placed in her school's newspaper (The Daily Californian, UC Berkeley). Her sister Nancy quickly joined in, and the two of them got three other brave girl friends from the Bay area to join them. Leaving California in "Nellie", as the girls called their old Ford sedan, the five of them crossed the border at Laredo, Texas, before heading south to Mexico City.
Salinas Jr. College (renamed Hartnell College in 1948) summer school student photo ID, National University of Mexico, Mexico City, summer 1946 (left). "Escuelo de Verano" means "Summer School".
Nancy C. Werner receives her BA Degree (English) from San Jose State, San Jose, California, June 18, 1948. Her father, (retired) Colonel Richard J. Werner, a former associate professor at the San Jose State teachers college (1927-1932) awards her the degree with a warm handshake (San Jose Mercury Herald, June 19, 1948) (right).
Nancy C. Werner, civilian employee for the US Armed Forces Europe, Heidelberg, Germany, 1949, enjoying herself at the Harmonie Club Bar-B-Que (on a date with Sergeant Ralph W. Dulin, also stationed at Heidelberg, Germany with the US Armed Forces). She had been living in Heidelberg since early September 1948 after graduating from San Jose State, San Jose, California in June.
Heidelberg's historic Harmonie Club on the corner of Hauptstrasse and Theatrestrasse was taken over by the occupying American forces in 1945 and used as a US Army enlistedman's club for socializing and relaxation by US Army service personal exclusively.
Photo on lower right: 1 Hammonds Barracks: Nancy Werner (third from right) on a date with Sgt. Ralph Dulin (second from right) at the EM (Enlisted Mans') Club, 1949, Heidelberg, Germany
Both photos above: Newly commissioned 2nd Lt. Ralph Dulin and wife Nancy (Werner) Dulin drop in on Nancy's father (Richard J. Werner, who, at the time, was Director of the National Milk Industry Foundation) and stepmother (Gay Martin Werner) in Washington, D.C., August 1955.
Nancy (Werner) Dulin holding her third child, a baby girl, 4.6.2.3, June, 1958. Looks like mother and daughter are dressed for the baby's christening.
Nancy (Werner) Dulin, age 35, with two of her children (4.6.2.3 on lap and 4.6.2.2 on the right) posing in front of the White House, Washington D.C., summer, June or July, 1961 . 4.6.2.1 most likely snapped the photo. We often traveled during the summer months. By car. In the summer. Without AC. We cooled off by rolling down the car windows.
Nancy (Werner) Dulin as Army wife, last half of 1962 or first half of 1963, Ft. Benning, Georgia, USA.
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