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Note: She was a minister's wife for many years. Upon Jesse's death she went to work as a house mother for Andrews School for Girls, outside of Cleveland.
1936
My life began in the Baptist parsonage of a small Iowa town, a life which was for a number of years to differ very little except in time and place from the usual pattern of ministers' children, another town with new school and new friends. Perhaps the longer moves from Iowa to Kansas and illinois added a little to the adventure. However, whne i was twelve father's work took another form and he was away from home most of the time. At last we were permitted a permanent resience in Bloomington, Illinois. Here I was to finished grade school.
Instead of high school I attended the Preparatory school at Illinois Wesleyan University and Later the college. With major emphasis upon the study of languages in which I delighted, with Y.W.C.A and literary society as extra-curricular activiities and many delightful friendships I spent happy years until the end of my sophomore year. One of my most intersting experience during these years at Wesleyan was the Y.W.C.A. conference at Lake Geneva.
All this time I continued my church activities, teaching a class of Junior boys and working in the B.Y.P.U. in various capacities.
At twenty years of age the cultural advantages of living in Boston were weighed against a college degree. Boston won and I married one of the students at Boston School of Theology, joined the Methodist Episcopal Church and again began parsonage life. After Boston came resdence in Illinois again....
To summarize my experiences the years from Boston to Keokuk is but to give the common story of a minister's wife, homemaking, babies, missionary and aid socieities, Standard Bearers, several unhappy periods in the Seniro High School Sunday School Department, with several years as mother in a summer camp of girls, campfire guardian and sponsor of Kappa Pi, Wesley Players and other student activities during the time were were in Ames.....
I treasure the wealth of experience and friends the mintry brought me but above all are the two out standing influences, my mother from whom I learned courage and cheerfulness and my husband whose eager quest for the best in mind and spirit filled my life with oppotunity for growth and enjoyment.
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