Mrs. Florence Elbe

She was a feature of folk stories to me, Mrs. Elbe. She lived in our neighborhood, Forest Acres, and taught at the local grade school. Her husband was an engineer on the Alaska Railroad, and during the 1965 earthquake he fell into one of the cracks. He was never seen again.

My grandmother, Millie Heinbaugh-Sorenson, had this photograph of her tucked away in an album. Everytime she told the story of the Eble's she would mention that she had a photo of Mrs. Elbe somewhere, take in the summer in Seward, Alaska in the late 1940s. I never saw it until she passed.