Albert Lanville Magner
Jennie Doris (Gager) Magner
Early 1920s Photo Source: Albert Magner, my Dad
Jennie (Gager) Magner's own words from the booklet, "Many Memories"
I graduated in 1921 and while attending a basketball game with Eva (my sister) and her date, Wes Holstein, Gladys Hughes and Bill Beach, I had a blind date with Albert Magner, my future husband. Note: Jennie and Albert lived just seven miles from each other
I signed a contract to teach at a country school, Shiloh about six miles from home. I went to Teachers College at Emporia Kansas for two months, June and July. Received a teacher's certificate for one year. I borrowed $100.00 from Thayer Kansas State Bank to pay for board, room and books. Good old days.
Back to my first teaching job. I stayed home and drove Nellie, the slowest mare on earth to the school house. I repaid the loan at the bank in two months, also paid the board bill for Eva and Dorothy (her sisters) staying in Thayer, Kansas.
My Personal Note: Jennie taught school for two years before marrying Albert Magner. After she was married she was kept busy raising their six children, cultivating a vegetable garden and raising chickens, canning their homegrown food, sewing clothes and other chores.
**Jennie wrote "Many Memories" and her daughter Noretta typed and assembled the book.
Jennie Doris Gager as a young girl
