She grew up and was educated in Welton, IA. Family and neighborhood songfests were main forms of entertainment when she was a young girl. She showed interest and ability in music at an early age and used to pick out tunes on the organ. When she was seven her mother began giving her lessons. Ten years later her parents bought her a piano. She studied for six years in Rock Island, IL. She took extra work in Chicago under Emil Liebling, a famed private instructor of that day. She followed this by taking three years of harmony by correspondence from Dr. Daniel Protheroe.
After finishing her years of study in Chicago she returned home, gave piano lessons and cared for her father during his illness of two years before he died. She & her mother left the farm and moved into the town of Welton, where she lived until her mother died. She and her cousin Bertha Rattray moved to Rhodes in 1908.
She was the Methodist Church Organist for 42 years.
In 1934 she became the teacher of a class made up of high school boys, her pride and joy. More thatn 30 young men enjoyed her presentation of the Sunday School lesson, sitting with her through the church hour.
Agnes lived all her life in her own home. She slipped away quitely. She achieved her one hundredth birthday, a goal she wanted to attain.
She was expert in making doillies by netting, than an art, seldom seen now (1976). The list of her activities is endless.
Her records show that April of 1976 marked her 68th year of teaching music and that she had taught a total of 608 students, as young as four and as old as sixty
4th daughter and youngest of nine children of...
After finishing her years of study in Chicago she returned home, gave piano lessons and cared for her father during his illness of two years before he died. She & her mother left the farm and moved into the town of Welton, where she lived until her mother died. She and her cousin Bertha Rattray moved to Rhodes in 1908.
She was the Methodist Church Organist for 42 years.
In 1934 she became the teacher of a class made up of high school boys, her pride and joy. More thatn 30 young men enjoyed her presentation of the Sunday School lesson, sitting with her through the church hour.
Agnes lived all her life in her own home. She slipped away quitely. She achieved her one hundredth birthday, a goal she wanted to attain.
She was expert in making doillies by netting, than an art, seldom seen now (1976). The list of her activities is endless.
Her records show that April of 1976 marked her 68th year of teaching music and that she had taught a total of 608 students, as young as four and as old as sixty
4th daughter and youngest of nine children of...
She grew up and was educated in Welton, IA. Family and neighborhood songfests were main forms of entertainment when she was a young girl. She showed interest and ability in music at an early age and used to pick out tunes on the organ. When she was seven her mother began giving her lessons. Ten years later her parents bought her a piano. She studied for six years in Rock Island, IL. She took extra work in Chicago under Emil Liebling, a famed private instructor of that day. She followed this by taking three years of harmony by correspondence from Dr. Daniel Protheroe.
After finishing her years of study in Chicago she returned home, gave piano lessons and cared for her father during his illness of two years before he died. She & her mother left the farm and moved into the town of Welton, where she lived until her mother died. She and her cousin Bertha Rattray moved to Rhodes in 1908.
She was the Methodist Church Organist for 42 years.
In 1934 she became the teacher of a class made up of high school boys, her pride and joy. More thatn 30 young men enjoyed her presentation of the Sunday School lesson, sitting with her through the church hour.
Agnes lived all her life in her own home. She slipped away quitely. She achieved her one hundredth birthday, a goal she wanted to attain.
She was expert in making doillies by netting, than an art, seldom seen now (1976). The list of her activities is endless.
Her records show that April of 1976 marked her 68th year of teaching music and that she had taught a total of 608 students, as young as four and as old as sixty
4th daughter and youngest of nine children of...
After finishing her years of study in Chicago she returned home, gave piano lessons and cared for her father during his illness of two years before he died. She & her mother left the farm and moved into the town of Welton, where she lived until her mother died. She and her cousin Bertha Rattray moved to Rhodes in 1908.
She was the Methodist Church Organist for 42 years.
In 1934 she became the teacher of a class made up of high school boys, her pride and joy. More thatn 30 young men enjoyed her presentation of the Sunday School lesson, sitting with her through the church hour.
Agnes lived all her life in her own home. She slipped away quitely. She achieved her one hundredth birthday, a goal she wanted to attain.
She was expert in making doillies by netting, than an art, seldom seen now (1976). The list of her activities is endless.
Her records show that April of 1976 marked her 68th year of teaching music and that she had taught a total of 608 students, as young as four and as old as sixty
4th daughter and youngest of nine children of...
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