Elizabeth Choy Education

Elizabeth's father was posted to Tenom where there were no educational facilities, so Elizabeth and her siblings were sent back to Kudat where her paternal grandfather ran the village school.Her higher education was taken at St Monica's School between 1921 to 1929, an Anglican missionary boarding school in Sandakan. In 1925, she and her aunt Jessie became the first girls to sign up in North Borneo's inaugural Girl Guides Company. By 1927, she was teaching the lower standards even whilst she was studying.

In December 1929, she came to Singapore to further her studies at the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus at Victoria Street. She shone academically, obtaining the Prize of Honor in her first year of school in December 1930. Eventhough the untimely death of her mother in 1931 and the onset of the Great Depression, she forwent a college education, even a possible scholarship, to start work so she could finance the education of her younger siblings.