Marjorie Bell Belfrage

BELFRAGE WOODFORD

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 4/2/2010 at 16:22:40

Woodbury County History 1982

Marjorie Bell Belfrage
By John Belfrage

Marjorie Bell Belfrage was the second daughter of Wilfred and Winnie Woodford Belfrage, born May 27, 1905. She started to country school three miles south of the town of Sergeant Bluff, Iowa but soon changed to the elementary school in town. She was graduated from high school in 1925 along with younger sister, Winifred, because of a year’s illness. Marjorie attended Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa, and was graduated with a B.A. Degree in 1932 majoring in biological science. She was president of Dimmit Residential Hall her senior year. Her first experience in the teaching field was at the Pennington School for girls in Romeo, Michigan but at the end of the first year, the school was closed because of the depression.

Coming back to Iowa, she taught in Macedonia, Onawa, and Des Moines, Iowa. She attended one session of summer school at the University of Iowa and taught one session at Parsons College in Fairfield, Iowa.

The next thirty years Marjorie taught art in the elementary, junior and senior high schools at Red Oak, Iowa. It was during the summers she attended The Cleveland School of Art in Ohio and received her Masters Degree in Fine Arts from Western Reserve University at the end of Summer 1943. At the close of the school year 1970, Marjorie was retired but remained in Red Oak, Iowa; maintaining a home here with her sister, Winifred Belfrage.