Marguerite Elzetta was the seventh child and fourth
daughter in the family of Harris and Orpha Greer. She was born on 27 October 1897 in St.
Johns, Arizona. She was a beautiful girl with long, auburn hair. When she was
young, her family called her Maggie, but some records inaccurately list her
name as Margaret. She spent her childhood on Greer Ranch and learned to work
hard along with the rest of her siblings.
On 5 April 1917, she married a local schoolteacher named
Warren C. Nichols in St. Johns. They had two children, Warren Cornelius and
Mary Ellen. Marguerite and Warren were divorced in 1942 and she never
remarried.
Marguerite attended business school and modeled hosiery in
San Francisco. She worked as a stenographer for many years. She was quite ahead
of her time in owning a health food store and
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| with her sister Kate |
bakery in Los Angeles in the
1940’s. Marguerite was a hard worker and carefully invested her money,
particularly in real estate. She was able to support herself through her
retirement and later paid for her own stay in a nursing care center. She died
on 18 January 1988 in Scottsdale, Arizona, at the age of ninety-one.
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| Hawaii 1967 |
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