Chapter Nine – Patricia Ford Crass
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Move to Pasadena
On September 20, 1938 (age 15), the family moved into Pat’s grandparents’ (Emil Kellogg Boisot) home in Pasadena, which was at 585 Bellefontaine Street. Pat and her sister Tommy did a lot of roller-skating. Pat remembers roller-skating down to the bottom of the driveway. Her grandparents had a chauffeur to drive them places. Pat was very fond of her grandmother, Lilly R. Boisot. For two years (1938-1939), Pat, (age 15-16) attended the Westridge Private High School for Girls in Pasadena. These were Pat’s ninth and tenth grade years. One of Pat’s favorite subjects was debating. She remembers Aunt Peggy, her mother‘s cousin, and Peggy’s daughter, Georgiana. Georgiana was closer to the age of Mary Jane. Santa Fe, New Mexico
Pat’s grandmother, Lilly Reid Boisot, wanted Pat to go to the Brownmoor High School, a girl’s boarding school in Santa Fe, New Mexico (1939-1941). These were Pat’s eleventh and twelfth grade years (16 and 17 years old). She went skiing every weekend. After a chemistry class on Fridays, the girls would leave to go skiing. It was at Brownmoor that Pat tried using her left hand to try to become ambidextrous. On August 27, 1939, at age 79, Pat’s grandmother Lilly R. Boisot, died in Carmel Valley, California. She set up a small trust fund with Wells Fargo Bank called the Lilly R. Boisot Trust for her grandchildren. She said it would provide her grandchildren with ‘pocket money’ later in life. All three grandchildren were in the trust. On November 7, 1939, Pat wrote an essay for an English