1911 Garden Home School, all grades. This is the founding year of Garden Home School, held upstairs in the Jager store.
Courtesy Ione (Coffey) Owens Parrish. See Hetlesater Family.
School in the old Jager Store, 1911-12
The complete student body.
Back row:
Laurence Weber, Maggie Mizner, Leona King, Olga Carlson, Clara Peterson, Clara Fullerton (Teacher Miss Beebe, married Mr. T.E. Hills years later), Adolph Peterson, Henery(sic) Erickson.
Center row:
(Outside post) Einar Erickson, Martha Carlson, Margaret Scherner (Smith), Ester Peterson, Jennie Hetlesater, Helga Carlson, Mary Feldman, Leo Manthi, ____ Blunt, Fred Gsohs, Mill Mizner, Tony Feldman, Ivan Fullerton.
Front row:
Marion Hetlesater, Cecil Carlson, ____ Blunt, Robert Manthi, ________, Leon Royce, Ambrose Cronin, Harry Feldman, Henry De Haan.
This picture taken year before present school was constructed.
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It’s nice to see the pictures of my grandmother’s school. That’s her the tall one 2nd to the left of the teacher. Clara Peterson and in front is her little brother Adolf with the overalls. She contributed many photos and letters for the school in 1982 for their book of the history of Garden Home school. That was 40 years ago. She’s been gone 36 years now and I miss her and the stories she would tell of the 1st real school house in Garden Home. I believe before the school house was built the school was held above the general mercantile store..
Thank you for the wonderful comment. The photograph shows the children on the front porch of the White Store located where Dairy Queen is today. The new school building opened the following year.
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