• Miss Ellie Is Turning 100

Miss Ellie has been a fixture at the Wildomar Library for nearly twenty years. As she tells it, she was going by the library and stopped in.  

After getting done speaking with Jennie Jackson, the librarian at the time, Miss Ellie was hired and has been a mainstay there ever since.

Former librarian Jennie Jackson, Bridgette Moore, and Miss Ellie Clark in 2010.

She was born in New Jersey and in 1940 she graduated high school there too. She married a man from Massachusetts who served in WWII, and they moved to California not long after the war.

Her first stop in California was in Orange County. She came to Wildomar when her daughter moved here. Her grandson is a graduate of Elsinore High School.    

Fun fact: Miss Ellie still drives and works a couple of hours per day at the library. 

The library is hosting a 100th birthday party for her, and that's slated for November 19th, from 11am to 1pm.

Come join us as we celebrate Ellie’s Centennial! Ellie has been a large part of not only our library, but the community, and we’d love those to be a part of yet another one of her milestones.

Happy Birthday, Miss Ellie! Thank you on behalf of all those that you've touched with your smile and friendship over the years. 

Below is an eight-minute video where Bridgette Moore chats with Miss Ellie or click this link if you can't see it below. 

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"Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!"

– Ingrid Bergman

Wildomar Rap had enjoyed the view long before the gray hairs took over.

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