Name/Title
Joy Muehlenbeck and Jerry (Muehlenbeck) Elsinga, 2018Entry/Object ID
2022.88.09Scope and Content
Sisters Joy Muehlenbeck and Jerry Elsinga describe adjusting to Saugatuck as young women after living in Chicago. Discussion about the how their family came to Fennville from the Chicago in 1945, their father a driver for Oscar Meyer, a tornado that took away the outhouse at their home on 66th (then called Hooter Road), how their mother was introduced to the community by the Wanzung family (their family home is now the Art Barn), the Big Pavilion, Joy working as a waitress at the Simmons of Saugatuck, the birth of the Interurban bus, Jerri's adjustment to 8th grade at the Douglas Union School in 1955, Joy's education and career as a teacher, Jerri's career as a social worker, Joy's house in Saugatuck purchased by from Edna and Abbot Davis,
Interviewed by Osman, Jane on 2018-10-04 for WGVU's Stories of Summer history harvest.
Muehlenbeck, Joy and Muehlenbeck-Elsinga, Jerry, “Joy Muehlenbeck and Jerry Muehlenbeck-Elsinga (Audio interview and transcript), 2018,” Digital Collections, accessed December 8, 2022, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/42943.Collection
Education and schoolsCataloged By
Winthers, SallyAcquisition
Accession
2022.88Acquisition Method
Found in CollectionNotes
Files found on a USB in the archives in December 2022Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Meuhlenbeck, Joy, Elsinga, Jerri (Muehlenbeck), 240 Butler/Blanford Gallery/Taft's Antiques/Simmons of Saugatuck/Tiny Tavern/Schnobel Hardware/Francis Building, Big Pavilion 1909-1960, Interurban Transit Authority (Bus), Douglas Union School 1866-, Davis, Abbott B. Sr. 1896-1971Related Events
Event
Torando April 3, 1956Create Date
December 8, 2022Update Date
March 19, 2025
