Geneva Florence Halterman, Education, 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks

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Thanks to Amy Johnson Crow, who year after year posts "challenges" her followers to share thoughts and/or photos in whatever manner suits each individual. Blogs, social media, or just in your personal memories. I have played before, and will play along a bit this year, God willing and the creek don't rise.

This week's challenge is: Education

Meet Geneva, my great aunt.  I have chatted about her before here on Reflections.

Geneva was a great story teller, we remember how she would recall events in her life, tilt her head back ever so slightly and close her eyes.  It was delightful.

Geneva received her Bachelors of Science in Education in 1925 from the University of Virginia.  She went on to earn a master's degree from the University of Virginia.  She conducted doctoral studies at Columbia University in New York and George Peabody College in Nashville, Tenn.

She taught school in Rockingham, Page and Amherst counties in Virginia and in Hardy County, W. Va., until 1942.

After teaching, she served as a German translator in the Army Memorial Division in Washington, D. C., and Philadelphia.

I have a few of her old text books lying around here somewhere.  Let me tell you, when she got her education, you were educated.  8th grade text books were quite advanced.  

Geneva never married and she hated thistles (I got that thistles hatred from her, I just know it.) 

She also assisted in the gathering of information for several genealogy books that were published.  I may have inherited a bit of that genie interest as well.

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