#edgarriceburroughs - Every Day With Edgar Rice Burroughs - June 3, 2025

 June 3, 2025 and 77 years ago on this day in 1948, restaurateur, recording star, and publisher, Sue-On Hillman was born in China. I’ve posted about Sue-On’s birthday before, but she’s had a tough health scare this year and I so happy that she’s doing well, that I wanted to post about her again.

At age two, a neighbor smuggled her to Hong Kong. Her mother was detained by the Chinese Government in Canton, China. Eight years later, she was reunited with her parents in Canada. Years later she and her husband owned and managed “Soo’s” a large restaurant in Brandon.

She and her husband, Bill Hillman, performed and recorded for about 60 years. Bars, concerts, television, and radio. Their first album was “The Western Union.”

Sue-On and Bill cofounded the www.erbzine.com site, a gigantic tribute to Edgar Rice Burroughs. The two of them have been more than kind concerning my small contributions to the writer’s legacy.

There isn’t enough room to list the accomplishments of this amazing woman or even begin to do her justice in this article. For details, I’d suggest starting at: https://www.erbzine.com/mag5/0550.html

Happy Birthday, Sue-On. Rock on!

The 100 drabble for today is, “My Barsoomian Princess,” written by her husband, Bill Hillman. It’s taken from his tribute at https://www.hillmanweb.com/princess.html All of us thank Bill for marrying her. Burroughs’s fandom would be so much poorer without her.

She fell in love with a local musician and the married when she turned 18. She and her husband attended university and performed nightly in Brandon nightspots long enough to garner five university degrees and to become high school teachers and university profs. She travelled and performed across two continents, bore three glorious children and excelled in cooking, gardening, crafts, karate, music, motherhood and as a person. This little-smuggled-waif-turned-beautiful-woman is the most amazing person I’ve ever met. She is an inspiration and a source of wonder to all have been touched by her aura. I’ve been touched. I married her.