Mary Sutherland (died 1940)

SUTHERLAND

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 7/4/2020 at 09:03:00

July 11, 1940 - The Anamosa Journal

SCOTCH GROVE--Funeral service was held here Friday for Miss Mary Josephine Sutherland, Seattle, Wash., who won national recognition as an English and Journalism teacher.

Miss Sutherland, who was born at Scotch Grove, died June 27. She was a descendant of two Scotch pioneers who walked from Canada and settled at Scotch Grove. It was on her grandfather's farm, where land in the new settlement was first plowed.

Miss Sutherland attended rural school in Scotch Grove township, Monticello high school, Lenox college and Coe college. In 1911 she went to Montana, where she taught in Roundup and Lewiston, later going to Spokane, Wash.

In 1924 she went to the Shorewood schools in Milwaukee, Wis., where she became head of the English department. It was there that the high school paper, "Shorewood Ripples," directed by Miss Sutherland, brought her national recognition.

Miss Sutherland was buried in Scotch Grove cemetery. She is surviving by one brother, L. D. Sutherland, Casper, Wyo.