Mary's funeral was conducted at 2:00 PM Friday April 29 1994 at the Mira Valley United Methodist Church south of Ord, Nebraska. Even though her funeral was at that church she was a member of the Seventh Day Baptist Church in North Loup, Nebraska. Her parents and family were Seventh Day Baptists.
She attended Valleyside District 10 school in Mira Valley, and was graduated from the Ord High School in 1925. She was later graduated (with honors) from Milton College in Wisconsin in June 1929 (where she attended her 60th-year class reunion. She was a teacher, except during the years she raised her family. She taught in rural schools at first, and later in the public school at North Loup, NE, retiring in 1973. She also directed community and church choirs, participated in community theater, and was an active member of a women's club, and in her church, and in the State Genealogical Society. She was known, too, for her purebred Herefords, her prize irises, and her extensive knowledge of the state's birds and other wildlife. She was a very active woman, with a wide variety of keen interests.
In 1947 she and her husband George moved to the Bell farm in Mira Valley where she lived, then, until February 1994, two months before her death.
She attended Valleyside District 10 school in Mira Valley, and was graduated from the Ord High School in 1925. She was later graduated (with honors) from Milton College in Wisconsin in June 1929 (where she attended her 60th-year class reunion. She was a teacher, except during the years she raised her family. She taught in rural schools at first, and later in the public school at North Loup, NE, retiring in 1973. She also directed community and church choirs, participated in community theater, and was an active member of a women's club, and in her church, and in the State Genealogical Society. She was known, too, for her purebred Herefords, her prize irises, and her extensive knowledge of the state's birds and other wildlife. She was a very active woman, with a wide variety of keen interests.
In 1947 she and her husband George moved to the Bell farm in Mira Valley where she lived, then, until February 1994, two months before her death.
Mary's funeral was conducted at 2:00 PM Friday April 29 1994 at the Mira Valley United Methodist Church south of Ord, Nebraska. Even though her funeral was at that church she was a member of the Seventh Day Baptist Church in North Loup, Nebraska. Her parents and family were Seventh Day Baptists.
She attended Valleyside District 10 school in Mira Valley, and was graduated from the Ord High School in 1925. She was later graduated (with honors) from Milton College in Wisconsin in June 1929 (where she attended her 60th-year class reunion. She was a teacher, except during the years she raised her family. She taught in rural schools at first, and later in the public school at North Loup, NE, retiring in 1973. She also directed community and church choirs, participated in community theater, and was an active member of a women's club, and in her church, and in the State Genealogical Society. She was known, too, for her purebred Herefords, her prize irises, and her extensive knowledge of the state's birds and other wildlife. She was a very active woman, with a wide variety of keen interests.
In 1947 she and her husband George moved to the Bell farm in Mira Valley where she lived, then, until February 1994, two months before her death.
She attended Valleyside District 10 school in Mira Valley, and was graduated from the Ord High School in 1925. She was later graduated (with honors) from Milton College in Wisconsin in June 1929 (where she attended her 60th-year class reunion. She was a teacher, except during the years she raised her family. She taught in rural schools at first, and later in the public school at North Loup, NE, retiring in 1973. She also directed community and church choirs, participated in community theater, and was an active member of a women's club, and in her church, and in the State Genealogical Society. She was known, too, for her purebred Herefords, her prize irises, and her extensive knowledge of the state's birds and other wildlife. She was a very active woman, with a wide variety of keen interests.
In 1947 she and her husband George moved to the Bell farm in Mira Valley where she lived, then, until February 1994, two months before her death.
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