Stanard, Wanda E. (Engle) 1902-1985

ENGLE, STANARD, DUNN

Posted By: Barbara Hug (email)
Date: 2/15/2006 at 13:48:11

Wanda E. Stanard

ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Mrs. Hugh Conway (Wanda Engle) Stanard, 93, of 45 Lawrence Place, Asheville, N.C., a former resident of Newton and native of Baxter, died.

She is survived by nieces and nephews as well as cousins in Iowa.

The daughter of George Adam and Anne Jane Dunn Engle, she was born Feb. 1, 1892 in Baxter and moved to Newton at the age of five.

She attended local schools and continued her education in Louisiana, Illinois and Virginia.
She taught in the Newton schools from 1910 until 1918 when she enlisted in the Army during World War I and was assigned to duty at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C., as a medical corps specialist.

She was honorably discharged in August, 1922.
For a number of years Mrs. Stanard wrote essays on words for the Miami Herald and contributed travel articles to the Asheville Citizen-Times including a travel series on a round-trip bus journey from Asheville to California. She visited Newton during that trip in May, 1963.

She was a former member of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Newton. ~ The Newton Daily News, Newton, Iowa, March 5, 1985.
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Social Security Death Index says this is the correct date of death.

Wanda Stanard

ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Wanda Engle Stanard, 102, a freelance writer who was a native of Jasper County, died Wednesday, Nov. 9 in the Asheville Veterans Administration Medical Center.

The daughter of George Adam and Jane Dunn Engle, she was born Feb. 1, 1892 in Baxter and later resided in Newton.

Her works appeared in the Asheville Citizen-Times and the Miami Herald.

Mrs. Stanard won prizes in the Asheville Arts Journal and statewide Articles Writers Contest in the late 1970s.

In 1918 she volunteered as a reconstruction aide and was assigned to duty at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.D. She was discharged from the army medical corps in 1922.

A resident of Asheville since 1930, she was a member of the Trinity Episcopal Church, was a former president of the Children's Welfare League, a member of the National Federation of Republican Women and a sustaining member of the Republican National Committee.

She cast her first vote for Republican Presidential Candidate Charles Evans Hughes in 1916 in Illinois, four years before the passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution which gave women the right to vote. ~ The Newton (IA) Daily News, November 1994.