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Enid Grace Ballantyne, 1940-2021

Published on Monday, September 19, 2022 | 5:00 am
 

Longtime Altadena resident Enid Ballantyne died after a lengthy battle with lung cancer, at Huntington Health (formerly Huntington Hospital). Her surviving family members said they wish to thank the nursing and medical staff for their unstinting care and kindness in her last days. During the Covid Quarantine, visitation was limited.

Enid grew up in Albany, NY, the daughter of Thomas A. Ballantyne and Elsie Sillcox. She attended preparatory school at St. Agnes School for Girls (Doan Stuart School) and Sweetbriar. An All-America; All-Canada LaCrosse and Basketball Player, from a socially prominent family in the Canadian-American Industrial Aristocracy, Enid could have married within the social circles of her family, but took a different course.

Working as a saleswoman and model for Lord & Taylor, NY, Enid encountered Norman Grevillius, then with the New York Times, who had done stints at the Little Rock Gazette and NAACP Arkansas State Press, contemporaneous with Operation Little Rock. Won over by the Marine Corps Veteran, Enid married him and made a life in Terre Haute, Indiana and Pasadena, California. There were others, as well.

Enid long viewed herself as a Second Wave Feminist, and put herself through UCLA as a single mother, even winning the landmark Glick v. Ballantyne, in 1978, as a second year In-Pro-Per Law Student. From then until Enid’s forced retirement, she took up unpopular cases, unpopular causes, for Americans others had traded in at a discount.

She was always dismayed at her classmates from UCLA who climbed the ladder of professional success, and never gave a thought to where they came from. No mere Liberal Cliche, Enid Ballantyne lived in the West Altadena Community she tried so hard to serve. Criminal cases, Estate Planning, Small Business Litigation, Family Law, Real Estate and Bankruptcy were the mainstays of her legal practice. In much of this, Enid was self-taught.

Much of her criminal practice was barter work, which then went unpaid, with her roof leaking and lawn overgrown. She never said she was doing it for the money. She went unpaid, but not unrewarded.

Among her greatest moments was when she took in, in her 60s, a four-year old grandson, born to a daughter on hard times. Enid’s son, Nils Grevillius was quoted as saying “They were likely her happiest years.”

Enid is survived by her longtime partner, Michael Guerra, children Alice Grevillius, Louise Grevillius, a son-in-law Gail Kienzle, grandson Alex Ballantyne, Nils Grevillius, uncle Robert Sillcox, sisters Jean Bridge, Amy Bridge and Marcia Cooke. Enid was preceded in death by her brother Thomas A. Ballantyne.

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