My sister Helen writes:

My life changed on March 4, 1931 when my father died on my 7th birthday in Republic, PA.

The next thing I knew Mother had moved the family of six back home to Blosser Hill. Once there, my grandfather, Benjamin Franklin LEWIS and my uncles, Walter, Hugh, and Paul built us a three room house while we lived with our grandparents. That is a story for another day.

Soon after arrival at my grandparents, my uncle Paul, who was in the 8th grade took me to Marion School (Marion School was a one room school where kids from the surrounding few miles when to school) and enrolled me in the 1st grade.
Miss MILLER, the teacher, was combing her long reddish hair at her desk. I remember walking in on the blackish oiled floor. There must have been eight or more rows of students in the school. Paul sat in the last row with my cousin, Lawrence STAMMLER, Raymond GOFF, and Cecil CROW. Another boy, Jack, walked from Nilan because he had been expelled from Nilan for his behavior. However, he seemed as normal as the other boys.

At age eighty-four, I am trying to remember the next years.
Teachers; 1930-31 Miss MILLER
1931-32 Kate DAVIS
1932-33 Art LACKEY
1933-34 Marian COX
1934-35 Marian COX
1935-36 Eunice VAN SICKLE
1937-38 Eunice VAN SICKLE

When Paul and I walked to Marion School each morning, we sometimes stopped at DEBOLT’s store at the bottom of the hill to buy a 10 cent loaf of bread for Grandma. She always gave us 2 cents for penny candy. Mr. Spencer DEBOLT always slid the sliding case for us to make our selection.

Then we proceeded down the State road #119 past the homes of Tom DILS and Del and Ed GANOE. Alice COLEBANK lived across from Marion School. Her brother, Lloyd STEWART, lived across from her. He worked at the Point Marion Post Office.
TO BE CONTINUED


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