Incredible Person

She was my first, second, and third grade teacher. She was my friend until the day she died.

It was a two-room school house. One teacher taught the 1st-4th, and then in the big room the other teacher taught the 5th-8th. The water and bathroom was outside, but it wasn't an outhouse.

We didn't have a janitor--we kids cleaned the school and maintained the school grounds, and the teachers supervised. In the playground they had something called a johnny strider--a pole with 6 chains hung from the top with handles you would hang from. You ran around till it got going and you could hang on and fly. The big thing was when one of the big kids would pick you up and run with you and then let go. There were a lot of skinned knees, etc. That's probably why you don't see them anymore.

We had two baseball fields--one for the big kids and one for the little kids. The teachers were the umpires.

My teacher had a swimming pool at her house and she would have us over to swim.. At the end of each year we had a field trip and the teachers and parents took us to the river. She liked to fish and would help us dam up streams.

She was our teacher, our friend, and one of the most important people in our lives.

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