"Verda Blunt Dies In Indianapolis Hospital
Miss Verda Mae Blunt, well known teacher and church worker, died at the Methodist hospital at Indianapolis Friday Aug 5.
She had been in poor health for some time and had lost much weight. She was operated on about 10 days ago for cancer of the stomach and her life had been despaired of for several days before she passed away.
She was the daughter of former County Auditor Robert Blunt and Laura Mitchell Blunt and was born at Austin May 17, 1894. Her parents came to Scottsburg in 1911 and she graduated from Scottsburg High School in 1913.
She joined the Christian church as a young girl and she had been a faithful worker since moving her membership to Scottsburg. Because of her fondness for children and her ability to make them like her, she had been Superintendent of the primary department of her church for the past 30 years, and had for many years coached the young folks in their children's day and other church activities.
A graduate of the Central Normal school at Danville, Ind., she was very successful in teaching children of primary age.
Miss Blunt taught in Scottsburg schools several years before she began teaching in the Austin schools, where she taught for 34 years, as primary teacher. She had been a teacher for 37 consecutive years, and was known and loved by literally hundreds, many of them former pupils who knew of her many virtues, her fine character, and unselfish willingness to help others.
She will be greatly missed in the activities of her church, and her influence will long remain in the hears of many of her students.
Surviving are her parents, her brother Virgil Blunt of Austin, sisters Mrs. Angie Clearwater and Mrs. Roberta Fitch, both of Indianapolis, Mrs. Valera Armstrong, of Springville, Ind., and several nephew and nieces.
The body was brought to the Stewart Memorial Home here and was taken to the Christian church in Scottsburg in time for the funeral at one o'clock Monday afternoon.
Realizing her condition Miss Verda had selected as her pallbearers the boys from the Christian Endeavor and girls for the flower girls and the singers and the songs she wanted at her funeral. Burial was in Scottsburg cemetery."
-- The Chronicle, Scottsburg Indiana, 11 Aug 1949
Miss Verda Mae Blunt, well known teacher and church worker, died at the Methodist hospital at Indianapolis Friday Aug 5.
She had been in poor health for some time and had lost much weight. She was operated on about 10 days ago for cancer of the stomach and her life had been despaired of for several days before she passed away.
She was the daughter of former County Auditor Robert Blunt and Laura Mitchell Blunt and was born at Austin May 17, 1894. Her parents came to Scottsburg in 1911 and she graduated from Scottsburg High School in 1913.
She joined the Christian church as a young girl and she had been a faithful worker since moving her membership to Scottsburg. Because of her fondness for children and her ability to make them like her, she had been Superintendent of the primary department of her church for the past 30 years, and had for many years coached the young folks in their children's day and other church activities.
A graduate of the Central Normal school at Danville, Ind., she was very successful in teaching children of primary age.
Miss Blunt taught in Scottsburg schools several years before she began teaching in the Austin schools, where she taught for 34 years, as primary teacher. She had been a teacher for 37 consecutive years, and was known and loved by literally hundreds, many of them former pupils who knew of her many virtues, her fine character, and unselfish willingness to help others.
She will be greatly missed in the activities of her church, and her influence will long remain in the hears of many of her students.
Surviving are her parents, her brother Virgil Blunt of Austin, sisters Mrs. Angie Clearwater and Mrs. Roberta Fitch, both of Indianapolis, Mrs. Valera Armstrong, of Springville, Ind., and several nephew and nieces.
The body was brought to the Stewart Memorial Home here and was taken to the Christian church in Scottsburg in time for the funeral at one o'clock Monday afternoon.
Realizing her condition Miss Verda had selected as her pallbearers the boys from the Christian Endeavor and girls for the flower girls and the singers and the songs she wanted at her funeral. Burial was in Scottsburg cemetery."
-- The Chronicle, Scottsburg Indiana, 11 Aug 1949
"Verda Blunt Dies In Indianapolis Hospital
Miss Verda Mae Blunt, well known teacher and church worker, died at the Methodist hospital at Indianapolis Friday Aug 5.
She had been in poor health for some time and had lost much weight. She was operated on about 10 days ago for cancer of the stomach and her life had been despaired of for several days before she passed away.
She was the daughter of former County Auditor Robert Blunt and Laura Mitchell Blunt and was born at Austin May 17, 1894. Her parents came to Scottsburg in 1911 and she graduated from Scottsburg High School in 1913.
She joined the Christian church as a young girl and she had been a faithful worker since moving her membership to Scottsburg. Because of her fondness for children and her ability to make them like her, she had been Superintendent of the primary department of her church for the past 30 years, and had for many years coached the young folks in their children's day and other church activities.
A graduate of the Central Normal school at Danville, Ind., she was very successful in teaching children of primary age.
Miss Blunt taught in Scottsburg schools several years before she began teaching in the Austin schools, where she taught for 34 years, as primary teacher. She had been a teacher for 37 consecutive years, and was known and loved by literally hundreds, many of them former pupils who knew of her many virtues, her fine character, and unselfish willingness to help others.
She will be greatly missed in the activities of her church, and her influence will long remain in the hears of many of her students.
Surviving are her parents, her brother Virgil Blunt of Austin, sisters Mrs. Angie Clearwater and Mrs. Roberta Fitch, both of Indianapolis, Mrs. Valera Armstrong, of Springville, Ind., and several nephew and nieces.
The body was brought to the Stewart Memorial Home here and was taken to the Christian church in Scottsburg in time for the funeral at one o'clock Monday afternoon.
Realizing her condition Miss Verda had selected as her pallbearers the boys from the Christian Endeavor and girls for the flower girls and the singers and the songs she wanted at her funeral. Burial was in Scottsburg cemetery."
-- The Chronicle, Scottsburg Indiana, 11 Aug 1949
Miss Verda Mae Blunt, well known teacher and church worker, died at the Methodist hospital at Indianapolis Friday Aug 5.
She had been in poor health for some time and had lost much weight. She was operated on about 10 days ago for cancer of the stomach and her life had been despaired of for several days before she passed away.
She was the daughter of former County Auditor Robert Blunt and Laura Mitchell Blunt and was born at Austin May 17, 1894. Her parents came to Scottsburg in 1911 and she graduated from Scottsburg High School in 1913.
She joined the Christian church as a young girl and she had been a faithful worker since moving her membership to Scottsburg. Because of her fondness for children and her ability to make them like her, she had been Superintendent of the primary department of her church for the past 30 years, and had for many years coached the young folks in their children's day and other church activities.
A graduate of the Central Normal school at Danville, Ind., she was very successful in teaching children of primary age.
Miss Blunt taught in Scottsburg schools several years before she began teaching in the Austin schools, where she taught for 34 years, as primary teacher. She had been a teacher for 37 consecutive years, and was known and loved by literally hundreds, many of them former pupils who knew of her many virtues, her fine character, and unselfish willingness to help others.
She will be greatly missed in the activities of her church, and her influence will long remain in the hears of many of her students.
Surviving are her parents, her brother Virgil Blunt of Austin, sisters Mrs. Angie Clearwater and Mrs. Roberta Fitch, both of Indianapolis, Mrs. Valera Armstrong, of Springville, Ind., and several nephew and nieces.
The body was brought to the Stewart Memorial Home here and was taken to the Christian church in Scottsburg in time for the funeral at one o'clock Monday afternoon.
Realizing her condition Miss Verda had selected as her pallbearers the boys from the Christian Endeavor and girls for the flower girls and the singers and the songs she wanted at her funeral. Burial was in Scottsburg cemetery."
-- The Chronicle, Scottsburg Indiana, 11 Aug 1949
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