Barbara HAGGARD

HAGGARD

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 1/18/2011 at 10:48:49

May 15, 1921 -- November 17, 1996

Barbara Haggard was born at Algona, Iowa on May 15, 1921. She was graduated from Algona High School, then attended Ward Belmont College at Nashville, Tenn. She was graduated from Northwestern University at Evanston, Ill., with a bachelor of music education degree. She taught at Battle Creek, Mich., and Eagle Grove, Iowa before returning to Algona. Barbara worked in the Algona Public Library from the late 1940s to 1980. She was instrumental in helping to organize the Community Concert Association in which she was extremely active for more than 30 years. She helped organize the first United Way and the League of Women Voters, and she was the first woman elected to a term on the Algona City Council. She was also an honorary member of the Algona High School Honor Society and for many years, transcribed books into Braille for the Iowa Commission for the Blind. Barbara had never married. She died Nov. 17, 1996, in the Algona Manor Care Center where she was a resident.

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