Pearl Woodford Mitchell (1873-1936)

MITCHELL, VAN GILDER

Posted By: Mark Christian
Date: 8/28/2010 at 19:24:51

Ames Daily Tribune and Times, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Tuesday, December 15, 1936.

P. W. MITCHELL, TEACHER, DIES

Joined School Staff Here in 1929

Pearl Woodford Mitchell, 63, manual training teacher in Ames schools for the past nine years, died at his home two miles north of the city at 6:20 p. m., Monday. He had been in ill health for some time from high blood pressure.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p. m., Wednesday from the First Methodist church, with the Rev. Walter Margau in charge. Burial will be at his birthplace, Milo, Ia.

The senior high school and Central junior high classes will be dismissed from 1 to 2 p. m., Wednesday so that school children and teachers may attend the funeral.

Mitchell was born at Milo April 2, 1873 and he attended the high school in Brooklyn. Following his marriage to Miss Olive C. Van Gilder at Milo the couple went to Missouri where they farmed for a number of years.

After working as a carpenter in Des Moines for 25 years, Mr. Mitchell started teaching first at Seymour. He then went to Brooklyn, where he taught under former Supt. M. G. Davis for several years, after which he taught at Vermillion, S. D.

He began teaching manual training in Ames in Jan. 1928, continuing on full time until this fall, when he was reduced to half time because of poor health. He secured his manual training certificate from Iowa State college in 1924 and took several courses in manual arts at the college while teaching here.

Surviving him are his wife and one son, Samuel Aned, of Ames; also four brothers, J. O. and J. E. of Des Moines, A. H. of Mentone, Cal., and H. A. of Cainesville, Mo. Also surviving are five grandchildren here, Ruth, Mildred, James, Pearl, Samuel jr., and Joseph.