Three more children joined the family: John, 1954; Michael, 1955; and Marj, 1957. All five attended Bonners Ferry schools. At one time there was at least one in each school in town. Open House at the schools was a busy time. All were graduated from Bonners Ferry High School and each played in the high school band. Mike played basketball.
We joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and have been actively involved. The entire family was in scouting for many years. We were also involved in squarte dancing and other community and school activities.
When we moved to Bonners Ferry we rented the MacGillivray home on Ash Street, then built a two-bedroom home on Buchanan Street. Later we built a larger home also on Buchanan Street.
Vicki and her husband, Larry McClellan, reside in Provo Canyon, Utah, with their four daughters, Kristin, Stacey, Kelley, and Jordin; and one son, Kirkland. Vicki is completing her Master's Degree in Nursing and is associate director of Nursing at Utah Valley Hospital in Provo.
Steve is married to the former Margaretha Wibisono of Indonesia. They met while he was serving in the United States Army in Germany. They live in Spokane, Washington, with their daughter, Tania. Steve works at a sawmill, and is involved in rentals and boat sales.
John married Adriane Storms of Spokane and they live in Otis Orchards, Washington. John builds and repairs motorcycles in his shop and is employed in a sawmill as a saw fitter.
Mike met his wife, Bonnie Hebdon, at Ricks College. They now live in idaho Falls, Idaho, with their four children: Justin, Wendy, Jennifer, and Paul. Mike will graduate in 1987 from Idaho State University as a certified public accountant.
Marji and her husband, Dennis J. Birch, and their four children, Jaymon, Brienn, Maeris, and Kellen live in Rexburg, Idaho. She does part-time work in a restaurant and does catering for them.
They rented their first little home from Walt Casey, later renting the Collins home on the East Hill before they built their log home on the South Hill where they resided when Frank passed away suddenly on April 2, 1957.
Nelle sold their home, and moved to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, where she resided until her death on October 30, 1983.
For several years, theri son, Wayne F. Ellersick, and his son, Wayne F. Ellersick, Jr., resided with them. In 1958 Wayne F. Ellersick, Sr., married Wanda Sands from Spokane, Washington, and they later moved to California.
They had a home beside the dike road west of town. They had a pet black bear at one time.
John Ellersick died December 20, 1942 in Bonners Ferry. Louise died in portland, Oregon, Septmeber 19, 1966.
Walter Ellersick came to Bonners Ferry in 1928 to take over the Texaco dealership with his brother, Bill. In 1930 the two brothers established the Ellersick Brothers sawmill and planing mill on property near the present W-I Forest Products. Walter continued in the lumbering business until his retirement in 1965.
Phyllis Ellersick was graduated from Lewiston Normal School, taught two years in the Paradise Valley School, two years in the Moravia School, and four year in the Bonners Ferry schools. Because married women were not hired as teachers, she did not teach again until World War II when she taught for four years.
Mr. Ellersick was active in the Masons, and Mrs. Ellersick in Eastern Star.
They made their home in Bonners Ferry until 1978 when they moved to a retirement home in Spokane, Washington. After retirement Walter pursued his hobby of wood carving. Some examples of his art may still be found in homes of the vicinity. He died in 1983.
Mrs. Ellersick resides at Hawthorne Manor in Spokane.
John F. W. Ellersick and his four sons, Bill, Jack, Walt, and Frank G. Built and operated a sawmill on Little Muddy Creek up in the mountains out of Ione, Washington, in the early 1920's. William H. "Bill" Ellersick was the first to come to Boundary County, in 1924. He was employed as a bookkeeper for the A. C. White Lumber Company which was operating extensively in the county at the time. Bill's brother, John F. "Jack" Ellersick worked for A. C. White at about the same time. Bill held his position withthat company until 1928 when he and Walter H. "Walt" Ellersick took over the Texaco Agency and service station. A year later they sold out their interest in the service station to give greater attention to the wholesale business, supplying Texaco products to various businesses and farmers in the area.
In 1928 they brought in a stock of lumber and building supplies, leasing Kent's Hall, situated between the couthouse and the S. I. Railway tracks. A planing mill was built in 1931, west and south of the old K. V. Railway bridge. They bought rough lumber which they planed, and they did custom planing. In 1932 the Ellersicks gave up their lease on Kent's Hall and moved their lumber and other stock to new buildings they erected adjoining the Texaco storage plant. They then added a sawmill next to the planing mill.