Belle Rose Gould

When forbidden by her father to pursue a college education, Belle, the eldest of six children, ran away from home and across the country to Los Angeles. There she found a woman mentor and was able to attend USC, where she pursued a degree in mathematics, becoming a math teacher until she married. After that, she performed all the lab work for the braces her husband, an orthodontist, designed for his patients. She spent the greater part of her days building and maintaining her large landscape garden, moving Boulders and building drainage channels. She and her husband liked to square-dance and built a wooden dance pavilion in the middle of the garden. She once told her granddaughter that her family came from Vilna.