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.