Rewarding Life of Former Lone Pine Resident Told

An article in a Los Angeles paper last week gave an interesting account of the rich, 
rewarding life of Mrs. Anna Grancell of 531 N. Rossmore Avenue, Los Angeles who came 
to California from Philadelphia sixty years ago for health reasons.

Mrs. Grancell and her late husband, Izaac H. Grancell, were residents of Lone Pine 
in the early 1900's, possibly around 1913, when they opened a restaurant and later a 
small hotel, now known as the Lone Pine Hotel.  During their years in Lone Pine they 
also homesteaded 160 acres south and east of Diaz Lake, adjoining the old Dearborn 
ranch property.

Several Lone Piners remember having attended school with one of the Grancell sons.  
After seven years in Lone Pine they moved back to Los Angeles and after several 
business ventures Mrs. Grancell's husband, working in his backyard garage, invented 
a lubricant for metals, which is used throughout the world today, and from which he 
made his fortune.

Last week Mrs. Grancell, now 81, received public recognition for her years of quiet 
philanthropies in behalf of several Southern California institutions.  She was guest 
of honor on Sunday in the Hollywood Palladium at the annual Gold Plate dinner for 
the California Home for the Aged at Reseda.

The Inyo Register
Bishop, Inyo County, California
Thursday, March 5, 1964 - Page 3

Transcribed by Pat Houser for Inyo County GenWeb, August 29, 2004