Miss Laura Amlie, one of Griggs County's pioneer teachers died at her home in Cooperstown on Monday evening of this week. Death came at about ten o'clock after an illness of about three weeks from cancer of the stomach. Funeral services were held yesterday morning from the Lutheran Church in Cooperstown, Rev. I. O. Jacobson officiating. following the services the remains were shipped to Binford where interment was made in the cemetery at that place.
Ragnild Laurina Amlie was born November 25, 1859 near Ridgeway, Winnesheik County, Iowa. She was the fifth child in a family of seven. Her father died when she was five years of age, leaving the family in very moderate circumstances even for that time. Rural school facilities were primitive but in spite of the handicap she was successful in securing an education and a teacher's certificate. At the age of nineteen she began teaching school and taught for several years in the schools of South Dakota and Iowa before coming to North Dakota. In 1886 she came to North Dakota and continued teaching for a period of twenty-three years, when she left the profession to care for her aged mother, who preceded her in death just thirteen years to the day.
Miss Amlie saw much of the hardships of pioneer life in Iowa and the Dakotas. She was liberal to the church while her own resources permitted it, and she took great interest in furthering the education of her nephews and was largely responsible for the professional training of Attorney Tho. R. Amlie an Dr. Paul Amlie.
Surviving besides the two nephews mentioned are a brother, Thomas R. Amlie of Peterson, Iowa, who was here to attend the funeral and two half-brothers, Ole and John Aaker of Flandreau, South Dakota.
Published in the Griggs County Sentinel-Courier, Cooperstown, North Dakota, October 18, 1934.
Ragnild Laurina Amlie was born November 25, 1859 near Ridgeway, Winnesheik County, Iowa. She was the fifth child in a family of seven. Her father died when she was five years of age, leaving the family in very moderate circumstances even for that time. Rural school facilities were primitive but in spite of the handicap she was successful in securing an education and a teacher's certificate. At the age of nineteen she began teaching school and taught for several years in the schools of South Dakota and Iowa before coming to North Dakota. In 1886 she came to North Dakota and continued teaching for a period of twenty-three years, when she left the profession to care for her aged mother, who preceded her in death just thirteen years to the day.
Miss Amlie saw much of the hardships of pioneer life in Iowa and the Dakotas. She was liberal to the church while her own resources permitted it, and she took great interest in furthering the education of her nephews and was largely responsible for the professional training of Attorney Tho. R. Amlie an Dr. Paul Amlie.
Surviving besides the two nephews mentioned are a brother, Thomas R. Amlie of Peterson, Iowa, who was here to attend the funeral and two half-brothers, Ole and John Aaker of Flandreau, South Dakota.
Published in the Griggs County Sentinel-Courier, Cooperstown, North Dakota, October 18, 1934.
Miss Laura Amlie, one of Griggs County's pioneer teachers died at her home in Cooperstown on Monday evening of this week. Death came at about ten o'clock after an illness of about three weeks from cancer of the stomach. Funeral services were held yesterday morning from the Lutheran Church in Cooperstown, Rev. I. O. Jacobson officiating. following the services the remains were shipped to Binford where interment was made in the cemetery at that place.
Ragnild Laurina Amlie was born November 25, 1859 near Ridgeway, Winnesheik County, Iowa. She was the fifth child in a family of seven. Her father died when she was five years of age, leaving the family in very moderate circumstances even for that time. Rural school facilities were primitive but in spite of the handicap she was successful in securing an education and a teacher's certificate. At the age of nineteen she began teaching school and taught for several years in the schools of South Dakota and Iowa before coming to North Dakota. In 1886 she came to North Dakota and continued teaching for a period of twenty-three years, when she left the profession to care for her aged mother, who preceded her in death just thirteen years to the day.
Miss Amlie saw much of the hardships of pioneer life in Iowa and the Dakotas. She was liberal to the church while her own resources permitted it, and she took great interest in furthering the education of her nephews and was largely responsible for the professional training of Attorney Tho. R. Amlie an Dr. Paul Amlie.
Surviving besides the two nephews mentioned are a brother, Thomas R. Amlie of Peterson, Iowa, who was here to attend the funeral and two half-brothers, Ole and John Aaker of Flandreau, South Dakota.
Published in the Griggs County Sentinel-Courier, Cooperstown, North Dakota, October 18, 1934.
Ragnild Laurina Amlie was born November 25, 1859 near Ridgeway, Winnesheik County, Iowa. She was the fifth child in a family of seven. Her father died when she was five years of age, leaving the family in very moderate circumstances even for that time. Rural school facilities were primitive but in spite of the handicap she was successful in securing an education and a teacher's certificate. At the age of nineteen she began teaching school and taught for several years in the schools of South Dakota and Iowa before coming to North Dakota. In 1886 she came to North Dakota and continued teaching for a period of twenty-three years, when she left the profession to care for her aged mother, who preceded her in death just thirteen years to the day.
Miss Amlie saw much of the hardships of pioneer life in Iowa and the Dakotas. She was liberal to the church while her own resources permitted it, and she took great interest in furthering the education of her nephews and was largely responsible for the professional training of Attorney Tho. R. Amlie an Dr. Paul Amlie.
Surviving besides the two nephews mentioned are a brother, Thomas R. Amlie of Peterson, Iowa, who was here to attend the funeral and two half-brothers, Ole and John Aaker of Flandreau, South Dakota.
Published in the Griggs County Sentinel-Courier, Cooperstown, North Dakota, October 18, 1934.
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