Coming of Age in Wartime San Diego
Coming of Age in Wartime San Diego is a touching and humorous memoir by Virginia Bousfield Welch of her 93 years living in University Heights.
Born April 14, 1921, in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Virginia was only two years old when her grandparents sold their farm and headed west to San Diego with the family. Virginia lived with her mother, brother, and uncle in San Diego on Hamilton Street just north of El Cajon Blvd.
In the 1930s, Virginia recalls her mother taking a neighbor on a rather wild ride in her car down Texas Street through undeveloped Mission Valley to La Jolla to catch a bus to Los Angeles. “It took months before Miss Vera rode further than the grocery store with my mother.”
Virginia earned a teaching credential from San Diego State College and taught for 25 years with San Diego Unified School District, retiring from Alice Birney Elementary School in 1987. She recalls the shortages, rationing, and blackouts of wartime San Diego from 1941 to 1945.
She met her husband, Jack, at San Diego State College and they were married for 51 years before he died in 1997. Both of their sons attended Alice Birney Elementary School. Virginia lived for many years at the end of Adams Avenue in University Heights and passed away of natural causes at age 95 in 2016.
Coming of Age in Wartime San Diego is a touching and humorous memoir by Virginia Bousfield Welch of her 93 years living in University Heights.
Born April 14, 1921, in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Virginia was only two years old when her grandparents sold their farm and headed west to San Diego with the family. Virginia lived with her mother, brother, and uncle in San Diego on Hamilton Street just north of El Cajon Blvd.
In the 1930s, Virginia recalls her mother taking a neighbor on a rather wild ride in her car down Texas Street through undeveloped Mission Valley to La Jolla to catch a bus to Los Angeles. “It took months before Miss Vera rode further than the grocery store with my mother.”
Virginia earned a teaching credential from San Diego State College and taught for 25 years with San Diego Unified School District, retiring from Alice Birney Elementary School in 1987. She recalls the shortages, rationing, and blackouts of wartime San Diego from 1941 to 1945.
She met her husband, Jack, at San Diego State College and they were married for 51 years before he died in 1997. Both of their sons attended Alice Birney Elementary School. Virginia lived for many years at the end of Adams Avenue in University Heights and passed away of natural causes at age 95 in 2016.
Coming of Age in Wartime San Diego is a touching and humorous memoir by Virginia Bousfield Welch of her 93 years living in University Heights.
Born April 14, 1921, in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Virginia was only two years old when her grandparents sold their farm and headed west to San Diego with the family. Virginia lived with her mother, brother, and uncle in San Diego on Hamilton Street just north of El Cajon Blvd.
In the 1930s, Virginia recalls her mother taking a neighbor on a rather wild ride in her car down Texas Street through undeveloped Mission Valley to La Jolla to catch a bus to Los Angeles. “It took months before Miss Vera rode further than the grocery store with my mother.”
Virginia earned a teaching credential from San Diego State College and taught for 25 years with San Diego Unified School District, retiring from Alice Birney Elementary School in 1987. She recalls the shortages, rationing, and blackouts of wartime San Diego from 1941 to 1945.
She met her husband, Jack, at San Diego State College and they were married for 51 years before he died in 1997. Both of their sons attended Alice Birney Elementary School. Virginia lived for many years at the end of Adams Avenue in University Heights and passed away of natural causes at age 95 in 2016.