Past and present of Lucas and Wayne counties, Iowa, a record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement . uently held various positions in tie- rural schools of Wayne. Lucas and Clay counties. Iowa, andalso taught for several terms in Wan-en county, Illinois Peeling the need of a more professional training to obtain even more satisfactory results, from 1892 until lsu) she attended the Humeston Normal School, an institution w I has since become defunct, ami later took s| ia] studies in Drake University .Mrs Pittard has in fact never ceased to be a student and in the course ofyears li
Past and present of Lucas and Wayne counties, Iowa, a record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement . uently held various positions in tie- rural schools of Wayne. Lucas and Clay counties. Iowa, andalso taught for several terms in Wan-en county, Illinois Peeling the need of a more professional training to obtain even more satisfactory results, from 1892 until lsu) she attended the Humeston Normal School, an institution w I has since become defunct, ami later took s| ia] studies in Drake University .Mrs Pittard has in fact never ceased to be a student and in the course ofyears lias become one id Wayne countys most successful teachers. It was while _i\uiL instruction in the village school at tona, Illinois, that she niei George W. Pittard, their acquaintanceship ripening into love andresulting in marriage, the wedding being celebrated in Bethlehem, at the homeof her father, on the Huh of March. 1897. The bridegroom had prepare, a com Portable home near Alexis, Illinois, and there the young married couple started housekeeping, hut tic happj life to which thej looked forward was soon rent. \\\A KING PITTARD LUCAS AND WAYNE COUNTIES 257 asunder as the reaper Death entered and claimed the husband and, only fourweeks after the marriage ceremony, at the same hour—high noon—Mrs. Pittardsaw her beloved one laid to rest. Under such tragic circumstances she becamea widow but there were left to her two little sons of a former marriage of herhusband, George. Jr., and Guy Pittard. now doubly orphaned, and it was uponthem that she bestowed the love of a father and mother. Subsequently .Mrs. Pittard again took up her vocation of teaching, followingit for several terms in the rural schools, and at the end of that time secured aposition in the Corydon grade school, with which she was connected for tenyears. She gave to her work in that direction the best that was in her andmany of the children who learned their lessons under her able guidance havepreserved for her a
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