Lohrville 1915 High School Graduates
and brief biographies

Source – Lohrville Enterprise, Lohrville, Iowa, Friday, May 28, 1915, p.1

Opal Iona Barr – of Irish decent, born at Foosland, in Champain County, Ill, July 3, 1896, where she first attended school in 1903, with Bertha Nagle as her first teacher.  Entered the fifth grade of the Lohrville school in 1907, first entered Lohrville High School September 3, 1911, age at graduation, 18 years, 10 months and 18 days, undecided as to her future.

Mary Agnes Crowley – of Irish parentage, born in Union Township, Calhoun County, Iowa, February 25, 1898, started to school with Anna Everhart as first teacher in District No.5, Union Township, in 1903, first entered Lohrville school in 1911, taking up the 9th grade work, age at graduation, 17 years, 2 months and 26 days, expects to continue school work next year.

Alzira Pearl Jefferson – of Scotch-Irish parentage, born in Gowrie, Iowa, in 1896.  Her first schooling was in the Lohrville school which she entered in 1904, with Miss Lotta Spangler as teacher, entered high school in 1911, age at graduation, 19 years, 3  months and 21 days, undecided as to plans for the coming year.

Lula Marie McDermott – of Scotch, Irish and German descent, born near Lohrville Nov 4, 1896, first schooling was in Union Township with Maud Pool as teacher, entered Lohrville High School in 1914, in the 12th grade, age 18 years, 5 months and 17 days, expects to do office work through the summer but take up college work in the fall.

Beatrice Frances McKeigh – of Irish parentage, born at Redfield, Iowa, December 9, 1897, first schooling at Redfield with Miss Della Rust as teacher, entered Lohrville school in the third grade in 1905, entered high school September 3, 1911, age 17 years, 5 months and 12 day, expects to continue studies in some good school.

Margery Rose McKeigh – of Irish parentage, born at Redfield, Iowa, July 6, 1896, first started to school in 1901 at Rockwell City, first entered Lohrville school in 1905, entered the high school Sept. 3, 1911, age 18 years, 10 months and 15 days, expects to attend college.

Morris Orville Nicholson – of English descent, born December 19, 1896, near Gowrie, Iowa, first schooling in Union Township, country school with Winifred Denman as teacher, entered Lohrville school in the 7th grade in 1909, entered Lohrville High School Sept. 3, 1911, age 18 years, 5 months and 2 days, will take up farm work for the summer and attend school in the fall.

Edna Ruth Padget – of French and English descent, born northeast of Lohrville, January 9, 1896, first started to school in Cedar Township with Miss Mae Finkbohm as teacher, entered Lohrville school in the 3rd grade in 1905, entered high school Sept. 3, 1911, age 19 years, 4 months and 12 days, future plans not yet formed.

Bernice Anna Powers – of Irish parentage, born at Lohrville, July 19, 1898, entered Lohrville school in the first grade in 1903, with Miss Carrie Hayes as teacher, entered high school October 31, 1911, age 17 years, 10 months and 2 days, future plans undecided.

Hazel Lee Pratt – of English, Scotch and Irish descent, born at Lohrville, January 15, 1897, entered Lohrville school in the first grade in 1902, with Miss Anna Riggs at teacher, entered high school in 1911, age 18 years, 4 months and 6 days, undecided as to future.

Dora Mae Ross – of Scotch-Irish parentage, born March 29, 1896, first started to school in Union Township, country school, with Miss Minnie Orris as teacher, entered Lohrville school in the 8th grade in 1911, entered high school in 1912, age 19 years, 1 month and 23 days, plans to attend college.