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- 100YEARS ACHIEVED
Mrs Jessie Lolmough was 15 when she started teaching school inJackson County, that was in 1889.
Today , February 18, 1965, is MrsLolmoughs 100th birthday.
Born in Francisco, she has lived in Jackson County allher life, and taught school at Chelsea, Waterloo and MichiganCenter, she loved passing knowledge on to her "scholars".....she says,but children were children even 80 years ago.
"I was deathly afraid of mice ," she recalls . Onemorning my students put a mouse in a old wood stove we used toheat the schoolhouse . I had to build the fire every morning, and when Iopened the door that day, the mouse jumped out and frightened meout of my wits."
Mrs Lolmough lives at the Schutt Nursing Home , 714Steward Ave. She was a member of the Maccabees Hive # 356 for40 years, The Town Hall Club, The Golden Age Club, The WomansRelief Corps and a member of the Grandmother Guards . Girl Scout TroopNo.16 held a birthday party for her today. An open house in herhonor is planned at the nursing home from 3 to 6pm Sunday .
Jackson Citizen Patroit
February 18,1965
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Jessie Lived to be 101 years old, mabeJacksons oldest resident at that time .
DEATH ENDS LIFEPREDATING
LEE'S CIVIL WARSURRENDER .
A life begun one month before Gen. Robert E Leesurrendered at Appomattox,Va, endedWednesday, with the death of Mrs Jessie Lolmough, 101.
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