Lister, Mary 1872-1906

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Posted By: Barbara Hug (email)
Date: 2/15/2005 at 09:37:26

It is expected that the remains of Miss Mary Lister, whose death occurred in South Dakota, will arrive here tonight and the funeral will be held from the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Lister, tomorrow afternoon at 3 o’clock, Rev. O. S. Baker of the Methodist Church will officiate. Interment will be in the Newton Cemetery. ~ The Newton Daily News, Saturday, October 13, 1906, Page 1, Column 6

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Saturday night the body of Miss Mary Lister, whose death occurred at Deadwood, South Dakota last Friday at 10 o’clock, arrived in this city.

Mary E. Lister was born in Newton, Iowa, on September 3rd, 1872. She was the eldest in the family of three daughters, and her entire life, except three years spent in attending school and in teaching, was passed in the home of her birth.

She graduated from the Newton High School in the class of 1891, and soon after began teaching in the schools of this county, and later taught for a number of years in the Newton schools, resigning her position here to take up further study in high schools.

For two years she was a student in Iowa Wesleyan University at Mt. Pleasant, and then decided to specialize in the work of Domestic Science, she spent the next two years as a student in Chicago University and at Ames, Iowa.

Near the close of her course at Ames, she was offered a position as head of the department of domestic science in the government schools at Chilococo, Oklahoma, a position made open to her on account of her on account of her high grade work at Ames, and by having ranked first in the civil service examination given for her position. In March of this year she went to Chilococo, where she completed the year’s work, resigning her position there in August in order to accept a much better offer as head of the domestic department just to be opened in the public schools of Lead, South Dakota.

Before going to South Dakota, she returned home for a few weeks, during which time she was under a doctor’s care, having contracted malaria while in the south. Becoming somewhat better and eager to get into the work she had come to love so much, she left for South Dakota early in September. ~ The Newton Daily News, Monday, October 15, 1906, Page 1, Column 1