Willits, Louie Kooser (1875-1945)

WILLITS, PUTNAM

Posted By: C. Tucker (email)
Date: 10/1/2014 at 10:29:24

Times Republican
Marshalltown, IA [7-5-1945] p. 13

PLAN BURIAL HERE FOR FORMER SCHOOL TEACHER

Funeral services were held in Sacramento, Calif., Thursday for Miss Louie K. Willits, former Marshalltown school teacher and native of Liscomb, who died in Sacramento Monday afternoon. The body will be cremated and the ashes will be brought to Marshalltown by her brother, George Willits, for deposit in Riverside cemetery. Miss Willits, daughter of the late J. C. and Ann P. [Putnam] Willits, was born at Liscomb Oct. 29, 1875. She taught in rural schools of Marshall county and in the Marshalltown system. The family moved to California in 1904, and Miss Willits continued teaching there after being graduated by Columbia university and the University of California. She established the domestic science department in the Sacramento schools in 1911 and also established the Junior Red Cross there in the first world war. She resigned from the Sacramento school system in 1929 because of failing health. During recent months she had been an invalid.