Margaret Ethel Bartlett

GEDCOM Note

Margaret, who never married, taught school at Flandreau, South Dakota, Proctor and St. Cloud, Minnesota, and Anaheim, California, for some 45 years. She was proud of having taught about 1,000 children how read.

GEDCOM Note

The Wednesday, 25 March 1987, edition of the Dell Rapids (Minnehaha County, South Dakota) Tribune carried the following obituary:

Margaret E. Bartlett, 81, died March 19, 1987, in Anaheim, California, where she had resided since 1961. Miss Bartlett had been hospitalized for about eight weeks following an automobile accident.
Margaret Ethel Bartlett was born on September 13, 1905, in Minneota, Minnesota, to Clarence and Ethel Bartlett. She attended school in Tracy, Minnesota, and Dell Rapids, and graduated from high school in Madison, South Dakota.
Miss Bartlett graduated from Dakota State College (then known as Eastern Normal School) in Madison and taught school in Flandreau [SD], Proctor, Minnesota, and St. Cloud, Minnesota. In 1961, she and her late mother moved to Anaheim, California, where she continued to teach until her retirement. Miss Bartlett was very proud that she had taught over a thousand of children to read in her more than 45 years of teaching the first grade. She received many honors for her teaching ability and enriched the lives of the many young children to whom she devoted her life.
Miss Bartlett was preceded in death by her parents, who were longtime Madison residents, and a sister, Mrs. E.P. (Mae) Van Buren of Dell Rapids. She is survived by a sister, Mrs. R.T. (Marian) Parsons of Anaheim, three nephews, James Parsons of Santa Barbara, California, Ken Parsons, of Camarillo, California, and Paul Van Buren of Los Altos, California, as well as five great nephews and nieces.
Burial will be at the Madison cemetery. The Hallenbeck-Ellsworth Funeral Home in Madison will be in charge of the arrangements.