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Liberty Center High School Graduates

1928-1933, 1935-1936, 1949-1951, 1953, 1955, 1957-1959

Liberty Center, Iowa is an unincorporated town in Liberty Township of Warren County, Iowa. Below is a scattered list of high school graduates from Liberty Center High School between 1928-1959. In 1959 a new school was built called Southeast Warren which combined High Schools from the towns of Lacona, Liberty Center, and Milo.
highlight text - below is a 1953 history of  Liberty Center School

1928
Maude I. Duncan
Pearl D. Fetters
Elizabeth G. Hamilton
Glenn C. Hess
Thelma L. Hess
Audrey F. Kimzey
Paul H. Labertew
Wayne A. Labertew
Maurice L. Sinift
Cyril D. Spear

1929
Florence Brebner
Lois Frank
J. C. Hess
Kermit Hess
Minnie Hess
Beatrice Houseman
Ardys Keeney
Edna Mosher
Clarice Orcutt
LaVaughn Puderbaugh
Alcia Shupe
Grace Smith
Marie Smith
Marie Williams
Raymond Williams

1930
Helen Baker
Louise Cage
Robert Downing
Velma Duncan
Vera Gillis
Russel Hamilton
Gladys Judkins
Leland Kline
Guy Lester
Leonard Shupe
Herman Snyder

1931
William Curtis
Dwight Hess
Nathalia Higbee
Virginia Kimzey
Viola Roberts
Kenneth Shupe
Luther Shupe
Merle Trotter

1932
Selma Fridley
Wilma Hervey
Blanche Herway
Vivian Herway
Winnie Judkins
Glen Lester
Leslie Shupe
Dwight Snider
Lorraine Snuggs
Mary Thompson
Francis Wellbaum
Dorothy Wheeler
Keith Wicker

1933
Walker Baker
Wilford Crooks
Laura Hess
John Henry Jones
Jack Kimzey
Gayle Lester
Gerald Miller
Carl Mosher
Orpha Nash
Norma Shupe
Irene Smith

1935
Arthur Brewer
Leonard Brewer
Gwendolyn Cage
Lorraine Fogle
Vasca Foust
Freida Gillis
Carl Hervey
Carlton Hess
Kenneth Hess
Guy Higbee
Eleanor Kline
Floreine Sandy
John Tigner

1936
Donald Ballard
Marjorie Bumgarner
Robert Campbell
Margaret Dowden
Ruth Downing
Eugene Gilbert
Lavear Hess
Wayne Hite
Homer Judkins
Margaret Ann Mills
Andrew Wicker
Norma Wickett

1949
Beverly Daniels
Scotty Joe Hall
Ramona Arlene Heemstra
William Merle James
Alberta Arlene Leach
Gilbert Winston Spear
Virgel Louis Streeter
Elvin Neal Tish
Velma Hastings Turner

1950
Caryll Bumgarner
James Cleveland
James Davis
Margaret Doherty
Warren E. Doss
Dixie Douglas
Niles Endres
Gerald Hervey
Ida Mae Leach
Robert Sargent
Charlotte Snuggs
Phillip Thompson
Doris Ann Woodyard




1951
Lloyd Agan
Mary Brebner Budreau
Rose Douglas
Donald Garrison
Veryl Gault
Lila Hamilton
Edith Spear Henry
Melvin Kimzey
Merle Kimzey
Doyle Nash
Rodney Patch
Gilda Rogers
Leona Sargent
Mary Stalter
Noel Vincent
Edna Mae Hastings Wells

1953
Tommy Downing
Marvelee Eaton
Audrey Hall
Ruth Hardin
Larry Lester
Rodney Reams
Jack Trunnell

1955
Neil Heemstra
Kendrick Kimzey
Albert McLarnard
Don Pierce
Betty Pierson
Wilma Rhodes

1957
Charles Cleveland
Jerry Downey
Dennis Edgington
Vernon Edgington
James Frank
James Kaldenberg
Dwight Oxenreider
Judith Pace
James Rhodes
Dwight Spear

1958
Otis Alexander
Rose Marie Fridley
Max Hall
Agnes Harris
Martin Little
Lois Norma Rath
Dennis Westerly

1959
Norma Jean Ball
Phyllis Marie Cleveland
Mary Myrtle Coffman
Lynn E. Edgington
Donna Joyce Hastings
Enid Zoe Kimzey
Sharon Martelle Kline
Gerald W. Knouse
Lynn R. Lester
Patricia Irene Rhoads
Sheryl Sue Woodyard

Sources:
Indianola Herald, Indianola, Iowa, May 24, 1928, p.1, May 22, 1930, p.4, May 23, 1935, p.3
Indianola Record, Indianola, Iowa, May 14, 1931, p.4, May 26, 1932, p.8, May 22, 1936, p.1
Indianola Tribune, Indianola, Iowa, June 11, 1929, p.3, May 9, 1933, p.3
Record Herald & Indianola Tribune, Indianola, Iowa, May 10, 1949, p.1, June 8, 1950, p.9, May 22, 1951, p.6, May 5, 1953, p.8, May 12, 1955, p.10, May 9, 1957, p.1, May 13, 1958, p.1, May 14, 1959, p.1

History of Liberty Center School

by Mrs. Gladys Downing
Published in the History of Warren County, Iowa, by Gerard Schultz and Don L. Berry, The Record and Tribune Company, Indianola, Iowa, 1953, p.170.

The first schoolhouse in Liberty Center was built in 1862 on the southeast corner of Main Street and highway 65. After having school there for several years this building was sold and moved one block east and one block south of the main corner of town. John M. Coles was the first teacher who taught there. The next school building was built in 1875 by John W. Proctor and Bill Edgerton one and a half blocks south of the main corner on the east side of highway 69. It was used as a two-room school, the upstairs for the upper grades with A. B. Johnson as teacher, and downstairs the lower grades with May Ames the teacher. It was used this way for twenty-two years, then sold to be used as a store. In 1897 a two-room school was built on the present Lester Hall property, all on the ground floor. This building was used until 1922 when the consolidated school was built. Mr. Hall is still living in this building [in 1953] which he remodeled into a nice comfortable dwelling.
The present [1953] building was completed in 1922 with Mr. Creary as first superintendent. Its exact location is in the southwest corner of southeast southwest section 15, a quarter mile east of the main corner of town. In 1950 the school board was petitioned to offer an election for the approval of a $30,000 bond. This was approved by the people, and later an additional $10,000 was needed to complete this project of constructing a new gymnasium, shop room and classroom. It was ready just before school began in 1952. The seating capacity is at least 500. The present teaching staff includes Superintendent R. A. Collister, Mrs. Francis Myers, commercial; James Wright, coach; Mrs. Bette Simons, music; Charles Tomlinson, shop and agriculture; Mrs. Allie Coles, sixth, seventh and eighth grades; Mrs. Marguerite Davis, fourth and fifth grades; Mrs. Gladys Downing, second and third grades; Mrs. Maxine Mosher, primary and first grades.

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