Elizabeth and her siblings were sent to Kudat where her paternal grandfather ran the village school,teaching in Chinese.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 became the first girls to sign up in North Borneo's inaugural Girl Guides Company.By 1927, she was teaching the lower standards even while she was studying.December 1929, she came to Singapore to recieve higher education at the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus at Victoria Street.She was very smart,obtaining the Prize of Honor in her first year of school in 1930.The death of her mother in 1931 and the onset of the Great Depression placed upon her the burden of raising six younger siblings.So she gave up college education,even a possible scholarship,to start work so she could give her siblings enough money for school.
-Maydelene
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