Elsie-Maye Bilyeu

1916 - 2002  (86 years)

• Name	Elsie-Maye Bilyeu
  Birth	14 May 1916	San Francisco, San Francisco, California   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	6 Oct 2002	Davis, Yolo, California
  Person ID	I27170	Scudder
  Last Modified	4 Dec 2006

  
  

  Family	Samuel Heywood Oakley,   b. 4 Apr 1914, Berkeley, Alameda, California d. 21 Jul 2001, Davis, Yolo, California (Age 87 years)
  Marriage	22 Nov 1939	Berkeley, Alameda, California
  Children	1. P. Oakley   2. J.B. Oakley
  Family ID	F9461	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Following her graduation from San Francisco Teacher's College (now California State University, San Francisco) Elsie-Maye was a kindergarten teacher until her marriage. According to her family members, "she was a woman of tremendous intellect, with a great interest in human and world affairs." She volunteered as a chauffeur for diplomats during the organizing of the United Nations. She was a recognition expert and published many articles on Old Sheffield Plate silver. She wrote travel articles for the San Francisco Chronicle, and was the author of a number of published greeting cards. She was a lifelong election day poll worker and a charter member of the Sam Ervin Fan Club. During her years in Berkeley she was a deaconess of the First Congregational Church and was "The Voice of First Congo" as the announcer of many Sunday radio broadcasts of that church's services. Later, she was an active communicant at All Soul's Episcopal Church in Berkeley and at the Episcopal Church of Saint Martin in Davis.

  
  

• Sources

  [S604] California Birth Index, 1905-1995.