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likely have been classed with the “country kids”, a term Russell Guerin used for the full time residents of the community. It was an experience unique to seashore towns, where the “summer people” who returned year after year became fast friends.
Millie, the firstborn in the family, was actually born in Ansley, but the family moved in with her grandparents J.R and Henrietta Usher at their home on the harbor when Millie was just one year old.
Her parents Mildred O’Farrell Usher ( and later Savard) of Lakeshore and August Usher later moved the family into a house on Oak St. and then again to the corner of Oak and Railroad, where Ina Day lives today. The location was an excellent spot for a gas station and car repair shop that August ran. It was pur-
Millie Usher enjoys the view of the harbor from Russell Guerins dock at Clermont Harbor.
chased from the Schlona family, Ina says, who wanted the land to go to a family who would open a business.
Other businesses were dotted around the neighborhood, Garcia’s Grocery,
Bankston’s Snow'ball Stand,
Buddy Haverty’s Harley motorcycle shop, and Annabelle Procter’s dress shop, which moved from Forest to Bordage Ave., were some that the two women remember.
Millie began her schooling at the Clermont Harbor Elementary School the first
Stepfather Charles Savard made wine in the backyard most years, said Millie.
Ina Day and her mother Mildred O’Farrell Usher Savard.
year it was opened and graduated as 8th grade valedictorian there in 1954. Ina was among the last students to attend the school before it closed to send the children to the new Gulfview Elementary School.
Life for the family was good. The home they built on the corner of Oak and Railroad was built with timber from land that their grandparents owned in Ansley. It was hauled by horse and buggy to the railroad and dropped off in Clermont Harbor. Though the home still stands, the design changed over the years. The original family home had a wall of windows at the front and won a design award at the Word’s Fair. Ina said.
Little
family,
Millie Usher as a teen in Cle