The Mrs Beach Saga

I remember the story of Mrs. Beach crowing like a rooster.  I think her first name was Virginia. The Dumas and the
 Ellermyers bought chickens during the war to be prepared should the stores run out of meat.  Mrs. Beach liked to sleep late
 and didn't appreciate the roosters crowing at 4 am and waking her up so she would retaliate by calling the offending poultry
 farmers at 2 am in the morning and crow into the phone or parade in front of their homes, crowing and flapping her arms. 
 My mom says that Mrs Beach got so she wouldn't speak to her and Kay Ellermyer because of the chickens.  But we kids
 liked to go sit on Mrs Beach's front porch with her because she gave us cookies and she had no problem with us.  So one
 day my Mom told Mrs. Beach that if she didn't like us perhaps it would be best if the kids weren't allowed to visit the Beach
 porch.  Mrs. Beach quickly backed off her feud because she liked the kids visiting her. 
  
  Mrs Beach's husband was in the Navy and that gave them many food privileges that the rest of her neighbors didn't have. 
 She could do her shopping in the Navy commissary in Long Beach and wasn't restricted by the war-time rationing.  She was
 able to get bacon and other goodies that were in short supply in the regular markets.  After getting over her differences with
 us she once in a while would give us some of her Commissary produce when we weren't able to get it in the stores or had run
 out of rationing coupons.
  
 Mr and Mrs Beach had a grown daughter, Juanita.  I never saw her but was a bit envious of her because the Beaches had
 built the little house in the back yard for Juanita.  The house was like a bunk house, I think it had its own bathroom.  As far as
 I remember, no one used the little house during the remainder of Mrs Beaches tenure on Berendo, but I believe the
 Gieslers(? someone check me on this name) and the Womsleys used it for a kids bedroom.

- J. Dumas