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Mamie Marie <I>Brooks</I> Terrill

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Mamie Marie Brooks Terrill

Birth
Cowley County, Kansas, USA
Death
26 Mar 2001 (aged 96)
Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, USA
Burial
Tisdale, Cowley County, Kansas, USA Add to Map
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On stone with Arthur N. Terrill

The Winfield Daily Courier, Winfield, Kansas, March 27, 2001, page 10, column 4
Mamie Terrill
Omaha, Neb. - Mamie Marie Brooks Terrill, 96, of Omaha, formerly of Winfield, died March 26, 2001.
Services will be a 11 a.m. Wednesday in Tisdale Cemetery. Miles Funeral Service is in charge of arrangements.
Terrill was born Dec. 12, 1904, on a farm southeast of Winfield, to Mr. and Mrs.. T.J. Brooks. She graduated from Winfield High School and taught in a rural school before attending Southwestern College for two years.
After teaching in Attica and Burden for five years, she married Arthur N. Terrill in 1930. They lived on a farm east of Winfield.
After her husband died in 1936, Terrill returned to Southwestern College. The next year she obtained a teaching position in Coldwater. Each summer she returned to Winfield to attend Southwestern until graduating in 1941.
Terrill taught in Augusta for four years before moving to Manhattan in 1947 to teach school there. During the 1958-1959 school year she taught at Hahn Air Force Base in Germany. She retired as a fifth-grade teacher in Manhattan in 1971.
After her retirement Terrill became active in the Christian Women's Club and in a reading club. She was also a member of the First United Methodist Church, United Methodist Women, Delta Kappa Gamma and Manhattan Area Retired Teachers Association.
In 1991 she moved to Omaha to be near her daughter. In Omaha she was a member of the Evangelical Bible Church.
Survivors include a daughter, Ellen Terrill Thompson, Omaha; a sister Pearl Slagle, Winfield; a brother Earl Brooks, Nampa, Idaho; two grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
On stone with Arthur N. Terrill

The Winfield Daily Courier, Winfield, Kansas, March 27, 2001, page 10, column 4
Mamie Terrill
Omaha, Neb. - Mamie Marie Brooks Terrill, 96, of Omaha, formerly of Winfield, died March 26, 2001.
Services will be a 11 a.m. Wednesday in Tisdale Cemetery. Miles Funeral Service is in charge of arrangements.
Terrill was born Dec. 12, 1904, on a farm southeast of Winfield, to Mr. and Mrs.. T.J. Brooks. She graduated from Winfield High School and taught in a rural school before attending Southwestern College for two years.
After teaching in Attica and Burden for five years, she married Arthur N. Terrill in 1930. They lived on a farm east of Winfield.
After her husband died in 1936, Terrill returned to Southwestern College. The next year she obtained a teaching position in Coldwater. Each summer she returned to Winfield to attend Southwestern until graduating in 1941.
Terrill taught in Augusta for four years before moving to Manhattan in 1947 to teach school there. During the 1958-1959 school year she taught at Hahn Air Force Base in Germany. She retired as a fifth-grade teacher in Manhattan in 1971.
After her retirement Terrill became active in the Christian Women's Club and in a reading club. She was also a member of the First United Methodist Church, United Methodist Women, Delta Kappa Gamma and Manhattan Area Retired Teachers Association.
In 1991 she moved to Omaha to be near her daughter. In Omaha she was a member of the Evangelical Bible Church.
Survivors include a daughter, Ellen Terrill Thompson, Omaha; a sister Pearl Slagle, Winfield; a brother Earl Brooks, Nampa, Idaho; two grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

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