OBITUARY: Erla Crabtree Jadro, 1929-2021
Erla
Crabtree Jadro was born May 10, 1929 in Hydesville and passed
February 1, 2021 at her home in Fortuna. She was a fourth-generation
Humboldt County resident; Erla’s great grandparents, Alonzo and
Mary Jane Crabtree, traveled by ox team across the plains in 1848,
first settling in Lake County and then moving to the Yager Valley in
1910. She grew up on the Crabtree Ranch and attended school in the
one-room Redwood House School. Kids in the Crabtree family learned to
drive at an early age, so they often drove themselves to school in
the family car. Erla cherished memories of her youth growing up on