Issenhuth, Mrs. Anna 1878-1939

ISSENHUTH, KENNEDY

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, Volunteer (email)
Date: 7/28/2008 at 20:05:06

FUNERAL RITES FOR WELL KNOWN SOUTH DAKOTA TEACHER

Funeral services were held at Akron Monday for Mrs. Anna Kennedy Issenhuth,
61, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Kennedy and a prominent South Dakota
school teacher, who died Friday after a long illness.

Mrs. Issenhuth in 1926 was chosen the most popular teacher in South Dakota
by a committee of 15 appointed by the governor. She was honored with a free
trip to the sesquicentennial exposition in Philadelphia and was presented
with a gold medal by President Coolidge.

She was born near Chatsworth, Iowa, June 1, 1878, and attended the Akron
high school, University of Minnesota, and a teacher's college at Boulder,
Colo. After teaching in rural schools for several years, she taught at
Hawarden and later at Vermillion, Salem, Blunt, Pierre and Rockham, S.D.

Mrs. Issenhuth was married to John Issenhuth of Huron, S.D., in 1928. She
again taught school in 1929-31, interspersing her teaching with a trip to
Europe in 1930. Her health had been failing since 1931.

Besides her widower, she is survived by one sister, Mrs. P.J. Lass,
Beresford, S.D.

~Source: LeMars Sentinel, August 18, 1939