Kidder, Margaret Dr. 1900-1985

KIDDER

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - volunteer (email)
Date: 3/7/2015 at 11:51:44

Hawarden Independent September 26, 1985

Dr. Margaret Kidder, chairman of the language department of Drury College in Springfield, MO, from 1945 until 1970 and a former Sioux City resident, died Friday, Sept. 13, 1985, in a Springfield hospital after a five-month illness. She was 85. Graveside services were at 11:00 a.m. Monday in Graceland Park Cemetery in Sioux City. The Rev. Laurice Streyffeler, pastor of Wesley IJnited Methodist Church, officiated.

Dr. Kidder was bom Feb. 27,1900, at Hawarden. When she was still a young child, her family moved to Sioux City. She attended Sioux City schools and received a bachelor's degree from Morningside College in 1923. She received a master's degree from the University of Illinois in 1929, and a doctoral degree in 1937. Dr. Kidder taught at Mary Hardin-Baylor College in Texas before joining the faculty of Drury College as a Spanish professor in 1945. She was faculty sponsor for Alpha Phi social sorority and Sigma Delta Pi, the Spanish honorary. In 1970, she won the Don Quixote Award, a national honor of Sigma Delta Pi. Dr. Kidder attended St. Paul's United Methodist Church at Springfield and sang in the church choir. Each summer for 70 years, she lived at a United Methodist camp at Lake Okoboji in Iowa.

She is survived by a sister-in-law, Viola Kidder of Sioux City.