Casper Star-Tribune
Wednesday, December 15, 1993
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Wilda Alice Berry
Casper - Services for Wilda Alice Berry, 83, of Casper will be conducted at 11 a.m. Friday at Bustard Funeral Home by Rev. Gene Hagerman of the First United Methodist Church. Burial will follow at Highland Cemetery.
Miss Berry died Dec. 13, 1993, at the Wyoming Medical Center following a short illness. She was born July 22, 1910, in Junction City, Ohio, the daughter of George I. and Sara (McMasters) Berry.
She lived in Junction City until 1922 when she moved to Casper with her family. She attended Jefferson Grade School, graduating from Natrona County High School in 1929 as a "C" pin recipient. She then attended Starling Presbyterian College in Sterling, Kans., for two years.
She completed her B.A. degree at the University of Wyoming with an additional 60 hours credit.
Miss Berry taught for five years following college in the rural schools of Natrona and Converse counties.
She then taught in Wheatland for two years, Cody for a year, and the South Grade School in Douglas for two more years before returning to Casper to teach at Roosevelt Grade School.
Later, she taught at Dean Morgan Junior High School prior to being transferred to East Junior High School, where she taught until retiring in 1975.
In May of 1962, she was awarded the first Valley Forge Freedom Teachers' Medal ever presented to a Wyoming teacher.
She was a member of several organizations, including First United Methodist Church; past president, three times, of the UMC's Mabel Sheldon Group; a past noble grand of the W.L. Kuykendall Rebekah Lodge No. 39, and past president of District No. 6; past president of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Casper Canton No. 6; past chief matriarch of the Ladies Encampment Patriarch Militant of Casper; past president Casper Business and Professional Women; past tent president of the Betsy Ross Tent No. 9, Casper; and past department president of the Colorado-Wyoming Daughters of the Union Veteran's of the Civil War.
She also belonged to Casper Retired Teachers Association, the American Association of Retired Teachers, the American Association of Retired Persons, and was a charter member of the Casper Medical Center's Volunteer Auxiliary with over 500 hours of services were given special recognition.
She is survived by two cousins, Nora Gaito of Topeka, Kans., and Robert E. McMasters of Sharon City, Ohio.
Either flowers or memorials to the Blue Envelope Cancer Fund, meals on Wheels, or the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, Casper Chapter, would be equally appreciated. Contributions may be left at Bustard's, which is in charge of arrangements.
Wednesday, December 15, 1993
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Wilda Alice Berry
Casper - Services for Wilda Alice Berry, 83, of Casper will be conducted at 11 a.m. Friday at Bustard Funeral Home by Rev. Gene Hagerman of the First United Methodist Church. Burial will follow at Highland Cemetery.
Miss Berry died Dec. 13, 1993, at the Wyoming Medical Center following a short illness. She was born July 22, 1910, in Junction City, Ohio, the daughter of George I. and Sara (McMasters) Berry.
She lived in Junction City until 1922 when she moved to Casper with her family. She attended Jefferson Grade School, graduating from Natrona County High School in 1929 as a "C" pin recipient. She then attended Starling Presbyterian College in Sterling, Kans., for two years.
She completed her B.A. degree at the University of Wyoming with an additional 60 hours credit.
Miss Berry taught for five years following college in the rural schools of Natrona and Converse counties.
She then taught in Wheatland for two years, Cody for a year, and the South Grade School in Douglas for two more years before returning to Casper to teach at Roosevelt Grade School.
Later, she taught at Dean Morgan Junior High School prior to being transferred to East Junior High School, where she taught until retiring in 1975.
In May of 1962, she was awarded the first Valley Forge Freedom Teachers' Medal ever presented to a Wyoming teacher.
She was a member of several organizations, including First United Methodist Church; past president, three times, of the UMC's Mabel Sheldon Group; a past noble grand of the W.L. Kuykendall Rebekah Lodge No. 39, and past president of District No. 6; past president of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Casper Canton No. 6; past chief matriarch of the Ladies Encampment Patriarch Militant of Casper; past president Casper Business and Professional Women; past tent president of the Betsy Ross Tent No. 9, Casper; and past department president of the Colorado-Wyoming Daughters of the Union Veteran's of the Civil War.
She also belonged to Casper Retired Teachers Association, the American Association of Retired Teachers, the American Association of Retired Persons, and was a charter member of the Casper Medical Center's Volunteer Auxiliary with over 500 hours of services were given special recognition.
She is survived by two cousins, Nora Gaito of Topeka, Kans., and Robert E. McMasters of Sharon City, Ohio.
Either flowers or memorials to the Blue Envelope Cancer Fund, meals on Wheels, or the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, Casper Chapter, would be equally appreciated. Contributions may be left at Bustard's, which is in charge of arrangements.
Casper Star-Tribune
Wednesday, December 15, 1993
Page B2
Wilda Alice Berry
Casper - Services for Wilda Alice Berry, 83, of Casper will be conducted at 11 a.m. Friday at Bustard Funeral Home by Rev. Gene Hagerman of the First United Methodist Church. Burial will follow at Highland Cemetery.
Miss Berry died Dec. 13, 1993, at the Wyoming Medical Center following a short illness. She was born July 22, 1910, in Junction City, Ohio, the daughter of George I. and Sara (McMasters) Berry.
She lived in Junction City until 1922 when she moved to Casper with her family. She attended Jefferson Grade School, graduating from Natrona County High School in 1929 as a "C" pin recipient. She then attended Starling Presbyterian College in Sterling, Kans., for two years.
She completed her B.A. degree at the University of Wyoming with an additional 60 hours credit.
Miss Berry taught for five years following college in the rural schools of Natrona and Converse counties.
She then taught in Wheatland for two years, Cody for a year, and the South Grade School in Douglas for two more years before returning to Casper to teach at Roosevelt Grade School.
Later, she taught at Dean Morgan Junior High School prior to being transferred to East Junior High School, where she taught until retiring in 1975.
In May of 1962, she was awarded the first Valley Forge Freedom Teachers' Medal ever presented to a Wyoming teacher.
She was a member of several organizations, including First United Methodist Church; past president, three times, of the UMC's Mabel Sheldon Group; a past noble grand of the W.L. Kuykendall Rebekah Lodge No. 39, and past president of District No. 6; past president of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Casper Canton No. 6; past chief matriarch of the Ladies Encampment Patriarch Militant of Casper; past president Casper Business and Professional Women; past tent president of the Betsy Ross Tent No. 9, Casper; and past department president of the Colorado-Wyoming Daughters of the Union Veteran's of the Civil War.
She also belonged to Casper Retired Teachers Association, the American Association of Retired Teachers, the American Association of Retired Persons, and was a charter member of the Casper Medical Center's Volunteer Auxiliary with over 500 hours of services were given special recognition.
She is survived by two cousins, Nora Gaito of Topeka, Kans., and Robert E. McMasters of Sharon City, Ohio.
Either flowers or memorials to the Blue Envelope Cancer Fund, meals on Wheels, or the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, Casper Chapter, would be equally appreciated. Contributions may be left at Bustard's, which is in charge of arrangements.
Wednesday, December 15, 1993
Page B2
Wilda Alice Berry
Casper - Services for Wilda Alice Berry, 83, of Casper will be conducted at 11 a.m. Friday at Bustard Funeral Home by Rev. Gene Hagerman of the First United Methodist Church. Burial will follow at Highland Cemetery.
Miss Berry died Dec. 13, 1993, at the Wyoming Medical Center following a short illness. She was born July 22, 1910, in Junction City, Ohio, the daughter of George I. and Sara (McMasters) Berry.
She lived in Junction City until 1922 when she moved to Casper with her family. She attended Jefferson Grade School, graduating from Natrona County High School in 1929 as a "C" pin recipient. She then attended Starling Presbyterian College in Sterling, Kans., for two years.
She completed her B.A. degree at the University of Wyoming with an additional 60 hours credit.
Miss Berry taught for five years following college in the rural schools of Natrona and Converse counties.
She then taught in Wheatland for two years, Cody for a year, and the South Grade School in Douglas for two more years before returning to Casper to teach at Roosevelt Grade School.
Later, she taught at Dean Morgan Junior High School prior to being transferred to East Junior High School, where she taught until retiring in 1975.
In May of 1962, she was awarded the first Valley Forge Freedom Teachers' Medal ever presented to a Wyoming teacher.
She was a member of several organizations, including First United Methodist Church; past president, three times, of the UMC's Mabel Sheldon Group; a past noble grand of the W.L. Kuykendall Rebekah Lodge No. 39, and past president of District No. 6; past president of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Casper Canton No. 6; past chief matriarch of the Ladies Encampment Patriarch Militant of Casper; past president Casper Business and Professional Women; past tent president of the Betsy Ross Tent No. 9, Casper; and past department president of the Colorado-Wyoming Daughters of the Union Veteran's of the Civil War.
She also belonged to Casper Retired Teachers Association, the American Association of Retired Teachers, the American Association of Retired Persons, and was a charter member of the Casper Medical Center's Volunteer Auxiliary with over 500 hours of services were given special recognition.
She is survived by two cousins, Nora Gaito of Topeka, Kans., and Robert E. McMasters of Sharon City, Ohio.
Either flowers or memorials to the Blue Envelope Cancer Fund, meals on Wheels, or the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, Casper Chapter, would be equally appreciated. Contributions may be left at Bustard's, which is in charge of arrangements.
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