1925 - 1926 Prairie Rose School

1925-1926 – Teacher - Mabel Merklin – (in the New School House)

1. Dorothy Ritchey
2. Marlin Ritchey
3. Tom Ritchey
4. Wayne Ritchey
5. Edna MacDonald
6. Henry MacDonald
7. Pearl MacDonald
8. Pete Focht – 6^th grade
9. Alice Crabtree – 7^th grade
10. Ethel Crabtree
11. Lloyd Crabtree – 1^st grade

Memories: There were the Ritcheys and Crabtrees and Pete Focht (His family – at Uncle Vester’s)

New Schoolhouse: The Summer or 1925 the schoolhouse was built. Big day! First spade-fulls of dirt! I think Lily Freemyer dug the first one. (or maybe she dug some while we were all there after the formal first spade-full was dug and tossed – by some man. (If that formality was even done) Anyhow, I remember the women were flabbergasted!! It was probably part of the jesting, I don’t know. But to a 10 year old, I saw it as a remonstrance - warning that it was too hard. (I had no idea 40 years later that I would dig most of the ditch for the drain from the basement we built the summer in the 1960s.)