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still activeBy PHYLLIS CANNON P-B Staff WriterBusy Edith Sorensen of Pomona, remembered by old-timers as the pie lady of Second Street, claims there is hardly a day with enough hours in It,At 89, she remains spry, alert and friendly.She lives on Wisconsin Street and spends her time doing handiwork, keeping house, doing a little gardening, keeping in touch with neighbors and friends and sharing in the lives of her two sons, two daughters, 11 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.Mrs. Sorensen, a slender, white-haired woman of Danish extraction, spends most of her time turning out beautiful patchwork pillows, crocheting afghans and braiding, hookingand crocheting rugs.Her home is filled with her handiwork.As she sits in her easy chair, needle in hand, she is an easy and interesting conversationalist.“I had four children. My dear mother was with me and I worked most of theAg subsidy program fit for a queenWASHINGTON (UPI) -Queen Elizabeth II is atime. I think it’s wrong the way the elderly are separated from families today. There is a place and a need for grandpa-rents and great-grandparents,” she said recently.Raising children today, she admits, is far different than it was when her children were young. “But I do wish today’s parents would make their children mind. I guess it’s a trend of the times (children not minding). I do thinkmothers have to have a let of understanding these days.”To the elderly, she advises, ‘‘Be sure and say your prayers. That’s the best thing. I believe in prayer. God has been very good to me.And,” she adds, “keep busy. If you don’t know how to do anything, learn. You can learn as long as you live.”Mrs. Sorensen was bom In New York City. During herchildhood, she returned to Denmark four times, the first time when she was only 7, to visit relatives. She went to school there two years.The last trip was made when she was 14, and while she learned to read Danish from her mother’s Danish Bible, she never learned to speak or write it.She and her husband Chris, came to Pomona in 1920 from New Mexico. At that time, their eldest son, Ellsworth, was a little boy.They operated the cafeteria and lunch counter at the Alpha Beta market located at 120 E. Second St., and that was where she earned her reputation as a pie maker.“One day I remember, It was during the fair, 1 baked 52 pies, every kind you couldimagine. We called our placethe Crystal Cafeteria, and I coined the phrase “famous for fine food.”Mrs. Sorensen said she stayed in the cafeteria 16 years then the family bought a home on Pasadena Street and she stayed home.Her mother, Christina Peterson, lived to be 93 and died here in Pomona. Mrs. Sorenson’s husband died 11 years ago.Through the years she has seen many changes in Pomona, Mrs. Sorensen said. Not all have been for good.“For one thing, that Pomona Mall. That never should have been. It changed Pomona so much.When we came Pomona was small. Now there are somany people.”She admits a certain interest in world and national affairs but says, I can’t keepup.”A slight heart condition deters her gardening, she said. To compensate, she raises African violets indoors.Her love of people, however, Is what sparks her busyschedule.“I enjoy people,” she said. “My neighbors they’re so sweet to me.”Neighbors bring her scraps of material from which she fashions her pillows and rugs, She attends Pilgrim Congregational Church.The center of it all, how-ever, is her family, derfcil to watch the family,”she said. “The little children look like angels.”Mrs. Sorensen’s daughters are Mrs. Edith Shannon of Santa Ana and Mrs. June Stein of Balboa Island. Hersons are Chris of Honolulu, a fancy wood carver, and Ellsworth, a downtown Pomonabarber.
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Pomona Progress Bulletin
Pomona, California, US
Sat, May 26, 1973
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