(This is the from the book
published by our society.)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Soon after Lake Elsinore
Genealogical Society was founded in 1985 we chose as our first
project the publication of a
book of the burials at Elsinore Valley Cemetery.
Little did we know the scope
of the project and that it would take us ten years to complete.
As Joint Chairpersons for
the project Margaret Proctor and I, Shirley Brooks, would like to thank the
following:
The Board of Directors and
office staff of the Elsinore Valley
Cemetery for their patience
and help during all these years.
All members past and present
of Lake Elsinore Genealogical Society who
“walked the cemetery” in the heat and cold of our Elsinore
weather,
spent hours in the office
copying & checking their records,
sorting and re-sorting our
records, proof-reading the computer printouts
and helping in so many ways
to bring this project to a successful conclusion.
Special thanks go to the
following:
Our member, Pamela Koppel,
of Granada Hills,
who in spite of the
earthquake that severely damaged her home,
managed to computerize, the
more than 6000 burials that have taken place from 1876 thru 1994.
In addition to the records
at the cemetery,
Pamela included information
from the microfilm records of the 1956 cemetery survey
conducted by the
Genealogical Society of Utah,
the California Death Record
Index-1905 thru 1993
and the California Federal
Census records from 1900, 1910 and 1920.
Ron Arnold, son of Imogene
Lewellen (our society president),
who lives in Columbus,
Indiana,
for the great artwork that
resulted in a perfect title page for our book.
Professor Gary Shumway of
Cal-State University in Fullerton, California,
our publisher, for his help
and encouragement.
Thank you,
Shirley Brooks and Margaret
Proctor
Project Chairpersons