Chololo Ranch

Phil Ruth and I spent some time on Chololo Ranch during our travels through Kenya during 1980. The crazy lady in charge was Florence Schieren.  We have stories.

Phil was able to dig up this information on Florence.

Florence Louise Schieren

Birth: 3 Dec 1910 in Bristol, Sullivan, Tennessee, USA

Residence:

1 June 1925 (Age: 14)

North Hempstead, Nassau, New York, United States; New York,State Census, 1925

Residence:

1930 (Age: 20)

Kings Point, Nassau, New York; 1930 United States FederalCensus

Death:

Jun 1986 (Age: 75)

Honolulu, Honolulu, Hawaii  

We stayed in a mud hut at Chololo ranch.  It turned out that mud hut living is not nearly as idyllic as I imagined.  This is from my journal.