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Mary Matilda Geer

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Mary Matilda Geer

Birth
Penfield, Greene County, Georgia, USA
Death
31 Dec 1936 (aged 49)
Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, USA
Burial
Penfield, Greene County, Georgia, USA Add to Map
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GEER RITES SET
Services For Teacher Many Years Will Be Held Saturday
from: The Birmingham Age-Herald, Saturday, Janurary 2, 1937, p. 2

Funeral services for Miss Mary M. Geer, 45, teacher in Avondale School for many years, who died Thursday at a Birmingham hospital, will be held Saturday in Penfield, Ga.
Brief services were held Thursday night at Luquire's Chapel, Dr. A. H. Reid, of Avondale Baptist Church officiating.
Miss Geer made her home at the Y.W.C.A. She is survived by an uncle and several other relatives in Georgia.
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MISS MARY GEER BURIED AT PENFIELD
from: the Herald-Journal, Greensboro, Greene Co., GA, Friday, (prob. January 8, 1937):

Miss Mary Matilda Geer, 49 years of age, died in Birmingham, Ala. on Thursday, December 31st from pneumonia. Miss Geer was born in Penfield, Ga., on May 12, 1887, the daughter of James F. Geer and Lula Colclough. One brother, W. F. Geer, of Augusta, survives. The deceased was a member of the Baptist Church.
Miss Geer was well-known to may our people and her death saddens them. The funeral occurred at 11 A.M. from the Penfield baptist church. Rev. W. R. Callaway, and Rev. C. H. Kopp officiated. The pall bearers were Mr. J. S. Callaway, Mr. T. H. McGibony, Mr. R. M. Boswell, Mr. J. H. Colclough, Mr. James L. Crossley and Mr. E. R. Boswell. J. H. McCommons Co., morticians, in charge. Interment in the Penfield cemetery.
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Memorial To Teacher Held at Avondale
from: unidentified article

A memorial service was held by Avondale P.T.A. at a meeting Tuesday in honor of Miss Mary Geer, former teacher, whose death occurred Dec. 31. Mrs. J. M. Levine, former active worker in the P.T.A. was also honored. Dr. Frazer Banks, representing the Board of Education; J. D. Williams, principal, representing the teachers, and Mrs. G. C. Illingworth, P.T.A. president, made brief talks about Miss Geer, her kindly spirit of goodwill, her frankness and sincerity and her sympathetic understanding of children.
Resolutions were drawn up and adopted to perpetuate the memory of Miss Geer and expressing the regret of the school on her death. In appreciation of her life and as a symbol of her high ideals a picture will be placed in the room where she gave for many years so unreservedly of her professional skill and untiring services to the training of the children of this city. Copies of the resolutions will be sent to the Journal of the Birmingham Teachers Assn. and will be filed at the school.
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IN MEMORIAM
from: Parent Teachers Association, Avondale School, Birmingham, AL

Whereas on December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, Mary Geer was taken by death from her place as instructor in Avondale School and whereas we the teachers and patrons of Avondale School feel that in her death we have lost a valued co-worker and friend: therefore, Be It Resolved by the members of the Avondale Parent Teachers Association:
First: That in her death Avondale School has lost a faithful, loyal, conscientious teacher and beloved personal friend.
Second: That the memory of her kindly spirit of good will, her frankness and sincerity, her loyalty to her work and her sympathetic understanding of children shall be to us and uplifting influence through the coming years.
Third: That in appreciation of her life and as a symbol of her high ideals we shall place a beautiful picture in the room where she gave for many years so unreservedly of he professional skill and untiring services to the training of the the children of this city.
Fourth:That we express to her family our deep and sincere sympathy in their bereavement and convey to them our own feeling of deep personal sorrow in their loss.
Fifth: That a copy of these resolutions be sent to her family, to the Journal of the Birmingham Teachers Association, to the local newspaper and that copies be preserved in the files of the Avondale Parent Teachers Association and the files in the office.
Respectfully submitted
Mrs. E. H. Goins, Leila Eborn and Rebecca Llewellyn, Committee
GEER RITES SET
Services For Teacher Many Years Will Be Held Saturday
from: The Birmingham Age-Herald, Saturday, Janurary 2, 1937, p. 2

Funeral services for Miss Mary M. Geer, 45, teacher in Avondale School for many years, who died Thursday at a Birmingham hospital, will be held Saturday in Penfield, Ga.
Brief services were held Thursday night at Luquire's Chapel, Dr. A. H. Reid, of Avondale Baptist Church officiating.
Miss Geer made her home at the Y.W.C.A. She is survived by an uncle and several other relatives in Georgia.
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MISS MARY GEER BURIED AT PENFIELD
from: the Herald-Journal, Greensboro, Greene Co., GA, Friday, (prob. January 8, 1937):

Miss Mary Matilda Geer, 49 years of age, died in Birmingham, Ala. on Thursday, December 31st from pneumonia. Miss Geer was born in Penfield, Ga., on May 12, 1887, the daughter of James F. Geer and Lula Colclough. One brother, W. F. Geer, of Augusta, survives. The deceased was a member of the Baptist Church.
Miss Geer was well-known to may our people and her death saddens them. The funeral occurred at 11 A.M. from the Penfield baptist church. Rev. W. R. Callaway, and Rev. C. H. Kopp officiated. The pall bearers were Mr. J. S. Callaway, Mr. T. H. McGibony, Mr. R. M. Boswell, Mr. J. H. Colclough, Mr. James L. Crossley and Mr. E. R. Boswell. J. H. McCommons Co., morticians, in charge. Interment in the Penfield cemetery.
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Memorial To Teacher Held at Avondale
from: unidentified article

A memorial service was held by Avondale P.T.A. at a meeting Tuesday in honor of Miss Mary Geer, former teacher, whose death occurred Dec. 31. Mrs. J. M. Levine, former active worker in the P.T.A. was also honored. Dr. Frazer Banks, representing the Board of Education; J. D. Williams, principal, representing the teachers, and Mrs. G. C. Illingworth, P.T.A. president, made brief talks about Miss Geer, her kindly spirit of goodwill, her frankness and sincerity and her sympathetic understanding of children.
Resolutions were drawn up and adopted to perpetuate the memory of Miss Geer and expressing the regret of the school on her death. In appreciation of her life and as a symbol of her high ideals a picture will be placed in the room where she gave for many years so unreservedly of her professional skill and untiring services to the training of the children of this city. Copies of the resolutions will be sent to the Journal of the Birmingham Teachers Assn. and will be filed at the school.
_______________________________
IN MEMORIAM
from: Parent Teachers Association, Avondale School, Birmingham, AL

Whereas on December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, Mary Geer was taken by death from her place as instructor in Avondale School and whereas we the teachers and patrons of Avondale School feel that in her death we have lost a valued co-worker and friend: therefore, Be It Resolved by the members of the Avondale Parent Teachers Association:
First: That in her death Avondale School has lost a faithful, loyal, conscientious teacher and beloved personal friend.
Second: That the memory of her kindly spirit of good will, her frankness and sincerity, her loyalty to her work and her sympathetic understanding of children shall be to us and uplifting influence through the coming years.
Third: That in appreciation of her life and as a symbol of her high ideals we shall place a beautiful picture in the room where she gave for many years so unreservedly of he professional skill and untiring services to the training of the the children of this city.
Fourth:That we express to her family our deep and sincere sympathy in their bereavement and convey to them our own feeling of deep personal sorrow in their loss.
Fifth: That a copy of these resolutions be sent to her family, to the Journal of the Birmingham Teachers Association, to the local newspaper and that copies be preserved in the files of the Avondale Parent Teachers Association and the files in the office.
Respectfully submitted
Mrs. E. H. Goins, Leila Eborn and Rebecca Llewellyn, Committee


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