Person:Teresa Vachon (1)

Mrs. Teresa Gabet – Services for Mrs. Teresa Gabet, 75, of 623 Main St., will be at 8:30 a.m. Friday in the E. Harper & Son Funeral Home, New Haven, and at 9 a. in St John’s Catholic Church, New Haven, Rev. Edward Roswog officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Mrs. Gabet died at 5:55 a.m. yesterday in St. Joseph’s Hospital after an illness of one week. She was a member of St. John’s Church and it’s Altar Society. Surviving are eight sons, Robert and Walter, both of Fort Wayne, Arthur, Butler, and Gerald, Joseph Jr., Charles, Norbert and Kenneth, all of New Haven; two daughters, Mrs. Mary Helen Buehl, Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Ruthanne Gingery, Garrett; 52 grandchildren, and three great grandchildren; four sisters, Mrs. Arthur Girardot, Lake of the woods, Mrs. Leo Vodde, Mrs. Walter Schrader and Miss Loretta Vachon, all of New Haven; and three brothers, Fred and Charles Vachon, both of Fort Wayne, and Robert Vachon, New Haven. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today. Rosary services will be conducted in the funeral home at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, May 25, 1966 page 2A

Probably no educational institution in Marion has a more practical relation to the business community and to the individual welfare of many young men and women, than the Marion Normal College, which has now completed more than twenty years of successful work and is recognized as one of the leading educational institutions in this part of Indiana. The founder and President, Mr. A. Jones, has gained a local reputation as an educator and within a few years of its founding the Normal School has gained a more substantial footing than many of the older educational institutions.

   The Marion Normal College was organized in 1891 by Professor Jones with a corps of four instructors. The first quarters were in the building at the corner of Thirty-eighth and Washington Streets. The curriculum during the first year comprised a business course, music and some academic work. Being a practical educator and a superintendent of public schools, Professor Jones was quick to see the need of high grade work for the thorough preparation of teachers. with this purpose in view the business course was discontinued and a four year course adopted, embracing both theoretical and academic work. Both the scope and quality of the instruction was raised to as high a plane as that in the average state Normal Schools. The Normal College maintains a four year course for general students, courses in science, mathematics and literature taking the place of the studies in professional course. In 1894 the college was moved from its first location to an attractive building between Washington and Harmon Streets, this building having been erected expressly for the use of the college by Dr. T. W. Johnson and Professor A. Jones the proprietors. the college building is of brick, occupying a ground space of ninety by eighty feet, three stories high with basement, its chapel having a capacity of five hundred seats. It possesses all the modern improvements of school architecture and includes laboratories for scientific work.

Teresa C Vachon graduated in the Class of 1911

1. ↑ Ancestry.com. Indiana Marriage Collection, 1800-1941. (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005).