Edna Jeffrey

Edna Jeffrey - childhood name Edna Finnila - is an American realtor, a long time co-owner of Finnila's Finnish Baths and majority owner of Noe & Market Center in San Francisco's Castro District in California in USA. Edna Jeffrey is also the author of the novel Till I'm with You Again.
Roots and early life
In 1902, Edna Jeffrey's father Matti Finnila (Finnish spelling: Finnilä) immigrated from Kalajoki, Finland to Los Angeles, California, sponsored by his brother, who owned a baking oven manufacturing business in Los Angeles. Matti's brother wrote a book called Moneyless Society. In Los Angeles, Matti Finnila attended classes to learn English and to learn the skill of bricklaying. In 1906, the San Francisco earthquake inspired Matti Finnila to move to San Francisco, to help rebuild the city.
In a Finnish gathering in San Francisco, Matti Finnila met Alexandra (Sandra) Lantta from Ullava, Finland. The couple married and settled to live in San Francisco's heavily Finnish-populated Castro District. Matti became a contractor in bricklaying work and in early 1910s opened a Finnish-style sauna club for public. The club became known as Finnila's Finnish Baths. Matti and Alexandra Finnila had a son Alfred Finnila in 1913 and a daughter Edna Finnila in 1916 (later Edna Jeffrey).
Novel by Edna Jeffrey
In 2004, Edna Jeffrey wrote a novel by the name of Till I'm with You Again. It tells a true life experience. Five-time Emmy-nominated screenwriter Thom Racina has written a motion picture screenplay of the novel. Now a motion picture production has been planned, to bring Edna Jeffrey's story to the white screen. <ref nameJeffrey/><ref nameForbidden/>

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