Word has been received of the death of Myrtle Ethel Gaffin, 82, until 1951 an instructor at Iowa State Teachers College, now State College of Iowa. She died May 21 in a McAllen, Tex. hospital. Funeral services were in Kreidler Chapel and burial was in Roselawn Mausoleum, McAllen.
Miss Gaffin was born Aug. 12, 1881, in Black Hawk County to O.E. and Emma N. Gaffin, pioneers of the county. She attended high school at Buffalo Center, where she was valedictorian in 1901. She received a master's degree in commercial education from Iowa State Teachers College, and taught there until 1951. Miss Gaffin moved to McAllen, Tex. in 1955.
She was a member of Phi Omega Pi and Zeta sororities, the Professional and Business Women's Club, and the Methodist Church of McAllen.
Miss Gaffin is survived by a foster brother, Ralph Pitts, formerly of Waterloo, and a sister, Mrs. Ida Mae Wiler.
--The Courier (Waterloo, IA), 12 June 1963
Word has been received of the death of Myrtle Ethel Gaffin, 82, until 1951 an instructor at Iowa State Teachers College, now State College of Iowa. She died May 21 in a McAllen, Tex. hospital. Funeral services were in Kreidler Chapel and burial was in Roselawn Mausoleum, McAllen.
Miss Gaffin was born Aug. 12, 1881, in Black Hawk County to O.E. and Emma N. Gaffin, pioneers of the county. She attended high school at Buffalo Center, where she was valedictorian in 1901. She received a master's degree in commercial education from Iowa State Teachers College, and taught there until 1951. Miss Gaffin moved to McAllen, Tex. in 1955.
She was a member of Phi Omega Pi and Zeta sororities, the Professional and Business Women's Club, and the Methodist Church of McAllen.
Miss Gaffin is survived by a foster brother, Ralph Pitts, formerly of Waterloo, and a sister, Mrs. Ida Mae Wiler.
--The Courier (Waterloo, IA), 12 June 1963
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