Person:Letha Falls (1)

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Letha Alberta Falls
b.27 Apr 1904 Allen, Indiana, United States
d.21 Aug 1987 Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, United States
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m. 13 Nov 1902
  1. Infant Falls1902 -
  2. Letha Alberta Falls1904 - 1987
  3. Ivan Ringwalt Falls1906 -
  4. Dorothea Fay Falls1907 - 2003
  5. Infant Falls1908 - 1908
  6. Carmine Adine Falls1910 - 1910
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Name Letha Alberta Falls
Gender Female
Birth? 27 Apr 1904 Allen, Indiana, United States
Death? 21 Aug 1987 Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, United States
Burial? Aug 1987 Fort Wayne, Allen Co., IndianaPrairie Grove Cemetery

Letha went to Normal School. She got a job earning 25 cents an hour to pay for school. She taught at the last one-room schoolhouse in Allen County. She would take classes after teaching all day. Then ride the bus home and walk the last mile from the bus stop to home.

Letha was the English and Latin teacher at Elmhurst High School in Fort Wayne for 35 years.

Dorothea said about her sister, "My sister Letha Falls always wanted to teach school. My mother said Letha used to line up her dolls and pretend to teach them. While she was going to Central High School, she worked in the school library for 25 cents an hour. She went to Normal School in Muncie after graduating from High School in 1932 and taught in the last one-room bick school in Wayne Township on Lower Huntington Road, now a private residence. The next year she went to Indiana University for a year and taught school for two years at Anthony Wayne Consolidated School at Covington Road and Old U.S. 24. Then she went back to Indiana University and graduated. She taught high school at Leo and Woodburn in Indiana in Latin and English. Then she started teaching at Elmhurst High School where she directed Senior Plays, supervised the school annual year book and taught Latin and English. She retired at age 62 in 1958."

At her death, Letha left $73,000 to the Walter E. Helmke Library at Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne for acquisitions.

Letha's obituary reads, "LETHA A. FALLS, 83, died at 12:20 a.m. Saturday in The Town House. Born in Allen County, she retired 21 years ago (1966) as a Latin and English teacher at Elmhurst High School after 35 years. Surviving is one sister, Dorothea Larsen, of Lakewood, Ohio. Graveside services at 2:30 p.m. Monday in Prairie Grove Cemetery, 6312 Old Trail Road. No calling. Arrangements by Klaehn's Wayne Street Chapel, 420 W. Wayne St. Memorials to Uniterian Universalist Meeting House or the American Lung Association." [Journal-Gazette, Sunday 23 August 1987, pg. 4C]

She is buried at Prairie Grove Cemetery in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

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