BELOVED SCHOOL TEACHER DIES, TAUGHT SAME GRADE 40 YEARS....
Funeral service will be held today for a veteran Birmingham school teacher through whose classroom passed many of the city's leading citizens. Miss Mitylene Willoughby died Thursday at her South-side apartment home. She was 70.
For more than 40 years Miss Willoughby taught the junior eighth grade at South Highland School. And along with the English and history and mathematics and geography she taught honesty and generosity to more than two generations of schoolboys and girls, her former teaching associates said last night.
"She was a remarkable woman," they agreed.
Her associations with her students never ended on graduation day, they said. Former pupils, many of them business and professional men here now, continued to come back to see Miss Willoughby year after year.
And former pupils will act as pallbearers at her funeral at 2 p.m. today at Ridout's Southside Chapel. The Rev. Frank Mathes will officiate and burial will be in Elmwood.
Surviving are a brother, Rufus Willoughby and sister, Mrs. J. W. Miller, both of Cleveland, Ohio and a number of nieces and nephews.
Funeral service will be held today for a veteran Birmingham school teacher through whose classroom passed many of the city's leading citizens. Miss Mitylene Willoughby died Thursday at her South-side apartment home. She was 70.
For more than 40 years Miss Willoughby taught the junior eighth grade at South Highland School. And along with the English and history and mathematics and geography she taught honesty and generosity to more than two generations of schoolboys and girls, her former teaching associates said last night.
"She was a remarkable woman," they agreed.
Her associations with her students never ended on graduation day, they said. Former pupils, many of them business and professional men here now, continued to come back to see Miss Willoughby year after year.
And former pupils will act as pallbearers at her funeral at 2 p.m. today at Ridout's Southside Chapel. The Rev. Frank Mathes will officiate and burial will be in Elmwood.
Surviving are a brother, Rufus Willoughby and sister, Mrs. J. W. Miller, both of Cleveland, Ohio and a number of nieces and nephews.
BELOVED SCHOOL TEACHER DIES, TAUGHT SAME GRADE 40 YEARS....
Funeral service will be held today for a veteran Birmingham school teacher through whose classroom passed many of the city's leading citizens. Miss Mitylene Willoughby died Thursday at her South-side apartment home. She was 70.
For more than 40 years Miss Willoughby taught the junior eighth grade at South Highland School. And along with the English and history and mathematics and geography she taught honesty and generosity to more than two generations of schoolboys and girls, her former teaching associates said last night.
"She was a remarkable woman," they agreed.
Her associations with her students never ended on graduation day, they said. Former pupils, many of them business and professional men here now, continued to come back to see Miss Willoughby year after year.
And former pupils will act as pallbearers at her funeral at 2 p.m. today at Ridout's Southside Chapel. The Rev. Frank Mathes will officiate and burial will be in Elmwood.
Surviving are a brother, Rufus Willoughby and sister, Mrs. J. W. Miller, both of Cleveland, Ohio and a number of nieces and nephews.
Funeral service will be held today for a veteran Birmingham school teacher through whose classroom passed many of the city's leading citizens. Miss Mitylene Willoughby died Thursday at her South-side apartment home. She was 70.
For more than 40 years Miss Willoughby taught the junior eighth grade at South Highland School. And along with the English and history and mathematics and geography she taught honesty and generosity to more than two generations of schoolboys and girls, her former teaching associates said last night.
"She was a remarkable woman," they agreed.
Her associations with her students never ended on graduation day, they said. Former pupils, many of them business and professional men here now, continued to come back to see Miss Willoughby year after year.
And former pupils will act as pallbearers at her funeral at 2 p.m. today at Ridout's Southside Chapel. The Rev. Frank Mathes will officiate and burial will be in Elmwood.
Surviving are a brother, Rufus Willoughby and sister, Mrs. J. W. Miller, both of Cleveland, Ohio and a number of nieces and nephews.
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