Elaine Pearlstine Warshauer passed away on August 25, 2019 at her home in Wilmington, NC.
Elaine was born in Charleston, SC on May 28, 1925, to Sophie Zerline Wetherhorn and Leo Clarence Pearlstine. When she was 10 years old, she and her family moved to St. Matthews, SC where her father opened the Pearlstine Hardware Company. They initially lived in the country on the historic Puritan Farm, where she enjoyed riding bareback on her horse Silver.
A few years later, they moved into the town of St. Matthews. Elaine played forward on her high school basketball team and graduated from St. Matthews High School as salutatorian of her class in 1942.
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