events of the next twenty-four hours did it."1 Old and ailing, Abe was taken from his Pasadena home at 757 North Orange Grove to the home of Elder and Mrs. E. J. Broyles in Upland where he spent his few remaining days. Here, the Rev. Mrs. Jemima Walker, who had known Abe since the days of her early pastorate at the Peoples' Mission visited the dying veteran of the holy war. From his death bed, Abe looked up at the large picture of his nephew, and said to Mrs. Walker, "God has his hand on this boy. You will live to see him President of the United States."2 Death cheated Abe of his fondest hope—reunion with the General after V-E Day,3 On December 13, 1944, a few days before the Allied defeat at the savage Battle of the Bulge, the Evangelical Visitor reports that "God saw fit to answer his /Abe7 prayer 'to open the skies and let me through.'"4 Abe Elsenhower's California friends officiated at his funeral—Bishop J. H. Wagaman who had once pastored the Abilene, Kansas Brethren Church, Rev. Amos Buckwalter of Pasadena, Bishop Alvin Burkholder of the Brethren Church at Upland, and Rev. Charles C. Eutchinson, op. cit., p. 369. interview with Rev. Mrs. Jemima Walker Mitchell, Montebello, California, June 1, 1958. 3Pasadena Independent, December 15, 1944. 4Evangellcal Visitor. January 15, 1945.
events of the next twenty-four hours did it."1 Old and ailing, Abe was taken from his Pasadena home at 757 North Orange Grove to the home of Elder and Mrs. E. J. Broyles in Upland where he spent his few remaining days. Here, the Rev. Mrs. Jemima Walker, who had known Abe since the days of her early pastorate at the Peoples' Mission visited the dying veteran of the holy war. From his death bed, Abe looked up at the large picture of his nephew, and said to Mrs. Walker, "God has his hand on this boy. You will live to see him President of the United States."2 Eutchinson, op. cit., p. 369. interview with Rev. Mrs. Jemima Walker Mitchell, Montebello, California, June 1, 1958. 3Pasadena Independent, December 15, 1944. 4Evangellcal Visitor. January 15, 1945. Death cheated Abe of his fondest hope—reunion with the General after V-E Day,3 On December 13, 1944, a few days before the Allied defeat at the savage Battle of the Bulge, the Evangelical Visitor reports that "God saw fit to answer his /Abe7 prayer 'to open the skies and let me through.'"4 Abe Elsenhower's California friends officiated at his funeral—Bishop J. H. Wagaman who had once pastored the Abilene, Kansas Brethren Church, Rev. Amos Buckwalter of Pasadena, Bishop Alvin Burkholder of the Brethren Church at Upland, and Rev. Charles C.