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STILL A WINNER, SAYS FAMILY190S Roses QueenRecalls Big Eventthat25 5cate of e ann dec! voicpanFULLERTON. In 1906, at tinage of 19, Mrs. J. A. Prizer cf126 W. Whiting Ave. (the former Miss Elsie Armltage of Pasadena) reignecl as queen of the second annual Rose Parade. “And she's still a winner/' her family declares.With the 46th annual Tournament of Roses under way, Ful-lertonites are feting the former queen who, with her unstudied graeious-ness and warm, sincere smile (a sitiile that says, “I like you”) charms all who know her.“The parade in 1906 was very different from the spectacle it is today,” Mrs. Prizer says. “For weejss before the parade, all high school students rode around town on their bicycles—looking for gardens of roses and smilax and receiving promises of the flowers for use on the day of the parade.“All of the parade committee was allowed to stay up all night before the parade, decorating the floats. That was one disadvantage of being queen—I had to go to sleep early.“The parade ended in Tournament Park. It seemed a long way out of town, then. Now it's almost in the center. There was no Rose Bowl football classic in the afternoon. Instead there were chariot races. I placed a crown on the winner's head.”After her graduation from Pomona College and one year in the teaching profession, the pretty queen married her high school sweetheart, J. A. Prizer, now manager of the Placentia Orange Growers' packing- house. The couple came to Fullerton 31 years ago and celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary last September.Of their five children, two daughters reside in Orange Cc.un-ty—Mrs. Margaret Chesley, 11632 Romneya Dr., Anaheim, and Mrs. Barbara Hobbs, 153 Rose Dr., Fullerton. Another daughter, Mrs, Katherine Kuhns, is Jiving in Ontario and a son, Morton, is completing his business administration course at the University of Oregon. The other son, Jack, was killed in action in the Philippines during Wc.r3d War II. “And I have eight grandchildren,” the lady proudly added.NLActfrelt;SofLuJme:int*195tailno\one Lui mir I rep Gal vor te 1 Ma InecmathebymoChiamTR1..In
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Long Beach Press Telegram
Long Beach, California, US
Tue, Jan 01, 1952
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