Billings Gazette 9 Mar 1990
Santa Cruz,Calif.-Gertrude George Tempe traveled to British Isles at the age of 80. The next year she and her granddaughter took a 10 Month trip to Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. After returning from that trip, she went with a group to China, and then she and her granddaughter spent five months in Southeast Asia and five months in India, Parkistan and Nepal. Last year she toured Russia and Eastern Europe on a 24-day, 2500-mile bus trip.
Mrs Tempe, 85, died March 1 of natural causes in her home.
She was born in Pine Creek, Mont., a daughter of Rev. Will and Agnes Snider. She was orphaned at age 10 and was raised by a grandmother. She put herself through Seattle Pacific Teachers College and taught in rural one-room schools in Montana and in the Lower East Side tenements in New York. At the start of the Great Depression, she left a short-lived marriage to Karl George to raise their handicapped son. She went on to get a PH.D. in education at Columbia University in 1953. As curriculum director of Madision Public Schools for 38 years, she retired in 1975 at the age of 71. After the death of her second husband, Andre Tempe, she decided to travel.
Survivors include a son John of San Diego; a sister, Willa Snider of Seattle; and a grandaughter.
Memorial services will be a 4 p.m. Saturday in Mrs. Tempe's house in Santa Cruz. Her body was cremated.
Santa Cruz,Calif.-Gertrude George Tempe traveled to British Isles at the age of 80. The next year she and her granddaughter took a 10 Month trip to Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. After returning from that trip, she went with a group to China, and then she and her granddaughter spent five months in Southeast Asia and five months in India, Parkistan and Nepal. Last year she toured Russia and Eastern Europe on a 24-day, 2500-mile bus trip.
Mrs Tempe, 85, died March 1 of natural causes in her home.
She was born in Pine Creek, Mont., a daughter of Rev. Will and Agnes Snider. She was orphaned at age 10 and was raised by a grandmother. She put herself through Seattle Pacific Teachers College and taught in rural one-room schools in Montana and in the Lower East Side tenements in New York. At the start of the Great Depression, she left a short-lived marriage to Karl George to raise their handicapped son. She went on to get a PH.D. in education at Columbia University in 1953. As curriculum director of Madision Public Schools for 38 years, she retired in 1975 at the age of 71. After the death of her second husband, Andre Tempe, she decided to travel.
Survivors include a son John of San Diego; a sister, Willa Snider of Seattle; and a grandaughter.
Memorial services will be a 4 p.m. Saturday in Mrs. Tempe's house in Santa Cruz. Her body was cremated.
Billings Gazette 9 Mar 1990
Santa Cruz,Calif.-Gertrude George Tempe traveled to British Isles at the age of 80. The next year she and her granddaughter took a 10 Month trip to Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. After returning from that trip, she went with a group to China, and then she and her granddaughter spent five months in Southeast Asia and five months in India, Parkistan and Nepal. Last year she toured Russia and Eastern Europe on a 24-day, 2500-mile bus trip.
Mrs Tempe, 85, died March 1 of natural causes in her home.
She was born in Pine Creek, Mont., a daughter of Rev. Will and Agnes Snider. She was orphaned at age 10 and was raised by a grandmother. She put herself through Seattle Pacific Teachers College and taught in rural one-room schools in Montana and in the Lower East Side tenements in New York. At the start of the Great Depression, she left a short-lived marriage to Karl George to raise their handicapped son. She went on to get a PH.D. in education at Columbia University in 1953. As curriculum director of Madision Public Schools for 38 years, she retired in 1975 at the age of 71. After the death of her second husband, Andre Tempe, she decided to travel.
Survivors include a son John of San Diego; a sister, Willa Snider of Seattle; and a grandaughter.
Memorial services will be a 4 p.m. Saturday in Mrs. Tempe's house in Santa Cruz. Her body was cremated.
Santa Cruz,Calif.-Gertrude George Tempe traveled to British Isles at the age of 80. The next year she and her granddaughter took a 10 Month trip to Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. After returning from that trip, she went with a group to China, and then she and her granddaughter spent five months in Southeast Asia and five months in India, Parkistan and Nepal. Last year she toured Russia and Eastern Europe on a 24-day, 2500-mile bus trip.
Mrs Tempe, 85, died March 1 of natural causes in her home.
She was born in Pine Creek, Mont., a daughter of Rev. Will and Agnes Snider. She was orphaned at age 10 and was raised by a grandmother. She put herself through Seattle Pacific Teachers College and taught in rural one-room schools in Montana and in the Lower East Side tenements in New York. At the start of the Great Depression, she left a short-lived marriage to Karl George to raise their handicapped son. She went on to get a PH.D. in education at Columbia University in 1953. As curriculum director of Madision Public Schools for 38 years, she retired in 1975 at the age of 71. After the death of her second husband, Andre Tempe, she decided to travel.
Survivors include a son John of San Diego; a sister, Willa Snider of Seattle; and a grandaughter.
Memorial services will be a 4 p.m. Saturday in Mrs. Tempe's house in Santa Cruz. Her body was cremated.
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