Day 141 - School Bell

5/21/2010
My Grandmother, Ida Belle (Bushner) Craig, was a teacher in a one-room school house near Neosho, Missouri. She was 18 and had completed a Normal School program. Her students ranged from grade 1 to 8. At 20 she retired when she married my Grandfather, Gus.
My Mom was also a teacher in Utah before her marriage to my Dad.
When we were children in Kansas City, Mom used the bell to call us home when we were at friend's houses in the neighborhood. We could hear it for blocks.
Mom gave me the bell when I became a teacher.