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THELMA
H. McCOMB
A
newspaper columnist, Thelma H. McComb is a mercurial personality who has long
been active in Rosemead, has been publicity chairman over a period of twenty
years for most of the organizations to which she has belonged, currently writes
“Rambling ‘Round Rosemead” for the El
Monte Herald, under her own name, and formerly wrote “Here and There” for
the Rosemead Review for four years
under the pen name Mae Louise.
The
daughter of Leroy C. J. and Lucy Marian (Meader)
Harvey, both of Iowa, and both of whose families go back to Revolutionary days,
Thelma H. McComb was born in Denver, Colorado, on July 16, 1907, and came to
California, to Fair Oaks in Sacramento County, at the age of five. She graduated from University High School in
West Los Angeles in 1928 and from Wilkins Business College in Santa Monica the
following year.
Mrs.
McComb came to Rosemead in 1935, and while her two daughters were still in
school gave generously of her time to the Muscatel Parent-Teachers’ Association
in which she was president in 1947-1948, where she was presented a life
membership; she was the second president of Rosemead High School Parent-Teachers’
Association in 1951. While her daughters
were young Mrs. McComb was very active also in Girl Scouts, served as
commissioner of the Rosemead Council in 1942-1943, and is the recipient of a
Thanks Badge from the council. In 1956
Mrs. McComb was president of the Rosemead Homemakers and still serves as its
publicity chairman. Identified with the
Rosemead Women’s Club for a number of years, Mrs. McComb was its president in
1958-1959, was district chairman from 1958 to 1960 of the San Gabriel Valley
District of the California Federation of Women’s Clubs, and is a charter member
of the district’s recently formed Alumnae Association. Mrs. McComb is a past president of the
Rosemead Federated Republican Women’s Club, has been active as a campaign
worker, and is a member of the Temple City League of Women Voters. She is presently serving on the election board as
clerk. For the past three years she has
been publicity chairman of District 4, Area 2, of the American Cancer Society,
and in 1958 was chairman of the Heart Fund Drive in Rosemead. She is a charter member, director, and in charge
of publicity of the Rosemead Friends of the Library. Mrs. McComb is also a present board member
and publicity chairman of El Monte Family Service and is the editor of the Los Angeles County Senior Citizens
Association News. She was certainly
active in the campaign for the incorporation of Rosemead, all three
attempts. She attends the Rosemead
Community Methodist Church and for one year was recording secretary of the
Women’s Society of Christian Service.
Six
years before taking up residence in Rosemead, the former Thelma Harvey was
married to Carroll Finney McComb on March 30, 1929, at St. Augustine-by-the-Sea
in Santa Monica. Mr. McComb is a native
of Pine Island, Minnesota. He graduated
from Alhambra High School in 1924 and attended Arizona State College and the
University of Southern California. He is
a senior engineer for Pacific Telephone and Telegraph. Mr. McComb’s
parents live in Temple City; his grandfather, Solon B. Finney, was active in
the Alhambra Methodist Church.
The
McCombs’ elder daughter is Hazel JoAnne Timmons-Jacobs, a 1948 graduate of El
Monte High School where she was outstanding in journalism and singing. She is the wife of William D. Jacobs and
lives in El Monte. Their children
are: Robert Wayne Jacobs, Richard Eugene
Jacobs, Deborah Lynn Timmons, Leslie Lillian Timmons, and David Allen
Jacobs. The McCombs’ younger daughter is
Mrs. Robert Keith (Carole Marian) Clark, a 1952 graduate of Rosemead High
School where she was outstanding in music and art and member of Sagaths Service Club.
She lives in Covina with her husband and their two children, Cynthia
Lynn and Scott Bradley.
Mrs.
McComb has always been an avid reader.
She finds bowling a pleasant respite from her many other activities and
duties.
Transcribed
by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Historical Volume &
Reference Works Including Alhambra, Monterey Park, Rosemead, San Gabriel &
Temple City, by Robert P. Studer, Pages 374-375,
Historical Publ., Los Angeles, California.
1962.
© 2012 V.
Gerald Iaquinta.
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