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Elin Vanderlip Dies at the Age of 90
Mrs. Elin Vanderlip, a living icon and the grand dame of the Palos Verdes Peninsula, died yesterday at the age of 90. She embodied the living history of Rancho de los Palos Verdes and will be greatly missed.The following is an excerpt of an article published today in the South Bay Daily Breeze:
Elin Vanderlip at the entrance to her home Villa Narcissa in 2008. (Brad Graverson/Daily Breeze Staff Photographer)
"Elin Brekke Vanderlip - widow of Kelvin Vanderlip and daughter-in-law of Frank A. Vanderlip Sr., the man who assembled the syndicate that in 1913 bought the entire Palos Verdes Peninsula - has died.
Barely six weeks after her 90th birthday party, the woman whom daughter Narcissa Vanderlip called "a force of nature" succumbed Monday morning to heart failure at her walled Villa Narcissa estate above Portuguese Bend in Rancho Palos Verdes.
Left behind are sons Kelvin Jr. and Henrik, daughters Katrina and Narcissa and five grandchildren."
The full story may be read at http://www.dailybreeze.com/ci_12892502?source=rss_viewed
Elin's father-in-law Frank Vanderlip planned to develop the area above Point Vicente lighthouse as an Italian hillside village, to be occupied by craftsmen who would live, work, and sell their wares. Marble was imported from Italy for ... more

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