My Great Grandmother
NOTE: Photos from my parents closet

California, Death Index
Name: Helena Childs Torrance
[Helena Childs Heney]
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 10 Nov 1867
Birth Place: New York
Death Date: 18 Oct 1940
Death Place: Los Angeles
Father's Surname: Heney

Son in law Royden Vosburg signs her death certif.
death: Cancer of the Uterus

First husband was Frank Blake Childs,
2nd Jared Sidney Torrance. Son Herbert Blake Childs died Dec 31 1968 Pasadena CA.

San Francisco Call, Volume 82, Number 111, 19 September 1897
Mr and Mrs W J Heney of San Fransisco are guest of Mr and Mrs F B Childs at their picturesque home Arroyo Vista. Mr Heney is Mrs. Childs Brother

[Helena Heney-Childs]
Home in 1900: Pasadena Precinct 5, Los Angeles, California
[Pasadena, Los Angeles, California]
Age: 31
Birth Date: Nov 1868
Birthplace: New York
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relationship to head-of-house: Daughter-in-Law
[Granddaughter]
Father's Birthplace: Illinois
Mother's Birthplace: Ireland
Mother: number of living children: 2
Mother: How many children: 2
Marriage year: 1891
Marital Status: Married
Years married: 9
Household Members:
Name Age
Emma C Bangs 64
Frank Childs 40
Eleanor Childs 31
Herbert Childs 6
Elizabeth H Childs 8
Chin Coon 37
Chew Ah Sing 37
Chew Wong 20

1910 United States Federal Census
about Helena Childs
Name: Helena Childs
Age in 1910: 42
Estimated birth year: abt 1868
Birthplace: New York
Relation to Head of House: Head
Father's Birth Place: Ireland
Mother's Birth Place: Ireland
Home in 1910: Pasadena Ward 3, Los Angeles, California
Marital Status: Widowed
Race: White
Gender: Female
Household Members:
Name Age
Helena Childs 42
Elizabeth Childs 18
Herbert Childs 16
Edith Smith 36

Helena and her 2nd husband, founder of the City of Torrence, CA:

Have personal photo's of the horse caravan going over the Mt. Wilson trail

Torrance Memorial Medical Center takes its name from its founder, real estate developer, Jared Sidney Torrance, who was also the founder of the City of Torrance. Although he created the Torrance Hospital Association in 1920, Mr. Torrance died before seeing the hospital come to fruition. Mrs. Torrance fulfilled her husband's dream by opening the area's first hospital in 1925 on its original site on Engracia Avenue in what is known today as Old Downtown Torrance.

In 1925, thanks to Helena Childs Torrance's efforts to keep her husband's dream alive, the Jared Sidney Torrance Memorial Hospital admits its first patients. During its first year, 521 patients were admitted to the hospital and 72 babies were born.

Note:
(The builder/first owner of the "Rose Hedge" Mansion was that of Emma Bouvier Peterson-Childs, widow of Philanthropist George Childs. She had this home built in 1904.There is NO relationship to Frank Blake Childs, his father William H, nor his mother Emma Blake Childs-Bangs)

ORIGINAL PHOTO, NOT A DUPLICATE/REPRODUCTION from my father's closet.
PERSONAL FAMILY PHOTO; DO NOT COPY TO FAMILY TREES W/O PERMISSION, Thanks BC