Spring Garden School - 1943
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Spring Garden School, Miller County, MO, 1943. Last day of school picnic at Aurora Springs, MO. As remembered by Anna Mae (Bontrager) McNeely) and Bernie Gail Wright. Back row: L-R, Virginia Farris, Anna Mae Bontrager, Donald Farris, Vincent "Aloysius" Evans (orphan boy staying with Ed & Nell Tellman), Glennie Wright, teacher Frances Thompson (Later Mrs. Leroy Snodgrass). Front row: Probably Jessie Pauletta Hodge, Dolores Feltrop (Nell Tellman's younger sister who would die June 7, 1944 from the affects of earlier rheumatic fever), Bernie Wright, and Leland McMillan. A glimpse of rural Missouri school children 18 months after Pearl Harbor brought the U.S. into WWII.