Lona Elrod (132278002)
Suggested edit: Lona McRee Elrod was known as "Mama Lona" by her family. She attended Meson Academy for her secondary school education. She was a working woman for much of her life. As a young school teacher in rural Georgia, she took her all white class to visit a nearby black elementary school. She was a lifelong stickler for correct English usage. She nursed her parents in their old age and was always attentive to other elderly relatives.
Her only child, Mac Elrod, recalled of her: "My mother drove through two school districts to get me to the only decent school in the area, even though its class rooms were heated with coal stoves. A state which could ill afford one good school system, was attempting to support two, because of segregation.
Tall and redheaded, she did not fit the image of the flapper or the southern belle.
A person of strong principles, she quit her post as executive secretary of the Georgia Tuberculosis Association in protest, when the directors spent children's contributed dimes on smokes and drinks for their meetings. She quit another job, when a man she had trained was paid more than she. Mrs. Elrod did a great deal of genealogical research. Her genealogical collection under the name "Lona McRee Elrod collection" is preserved at the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Georgia.
Contributor: L.L. Manning (46584674) • [email protected]
Suggested edit: Lona McRee Elrod was known as "Mama Lona" by her family. She attended Meson Academy for her secondary school education. She was a working woman for much of her life. As a young school teacher in rural Georgia, she took her all white class to visit a nearby black elementary school. She was a lifelong stickler for correct English usage. She nursed her parents in their old age and was always attentive to other elderly relatives.
Her only child, Mac Elrod, recalled of her: "My mother drove through two school districts to get me to the only decent school in the area, even though its class rooms were heated with coal stoves. A state which could ill afford one good school system, was attempting to support two, because of segregation.
Tall and redheaded, she did not fit the image of the flapper or the southern belle.
A person of strong principles, she quit her post as executive secretary of the Georgia Tuberculosis Association in protest, when the directors spent children's contributed dimes on smokes and drinks for their meetings. She quit another job, when a man she had trained was paid more than she. Mrs. Elrod did a great deal of genealogical research. Her genealogical collection under the name "Lona McRee Elrod collection" is preserved at the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Georgia.
Contributor: L.L. Manning (46584674) • [email protected]
Lona Elrod (132278002)
Suggested edit: Lona McRee Elrod was known as "Mama Lona" by her family. She attended Meson Academy for her secondary school education. She was a working woman for much of her life. As a young school teacher in rural Georgia, she took her all white class to visit a nearby black elementary school. She was a lifelong stickler for correct English usage. She nursed her parents in their old age and was always attentive to other elderly relatives.
Her only child, Mac Elrod, recalled of her: "My mother drove through two school districts to get me to the only decent school in the area, even though its class rooms were heated with coal stoves. A state which could ill afford one good school system, was attempting to support two, because of segregation.
Tall and redheaded, she did not fit the image of the flapper or the southern belle.
A person of strong principles, she quit her post as executive secretary of the Georgia Tuberculosis Association in protest, when the directors spent children's contributed dimes on smokes and drinks for their meetings. She quit another job, when a man she had trained was paid more than she. Mrs. Elrod did a great deal of genealogical research. Her genealogical collection under the name "Lona McRee Elrod collection" is preserved at the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Georgia.
Contributor: L.L. Manning (46584674) • [email protected]
Suggested edit: Lona McRee Elrod was known as "Mama Lona" by her family. She attended Meson Academy for her secondary school education. She was a working woman for much of her life. As a young school teacher in rural Georgia, she took her all white class to visit a nearby black elementary school. She was a lifelong stickler for correct English usage. She nursed her parents in their old age and was always attentive to other elderly relatives.
Her only child, Mac Elrod, recalled of her: "My mother drove through two school districts to get me to the only decent school in the area, even though its class rooms were heated with coal stoves. A state which could ill afford one good school system, was attempting to support two, because of segregation.
Tall and redheaded, she did not fit the image of the flapper or the southern belle.
A person of strong principles, she quit her post as executive secretary of the Georgia Tuberculosis Association in protest, when the directors spent children's contributed dimes on smokes and drinks for their meetings. She quit another job, when a man she had trained was paid more than she. Mrs. Elrod did a great deal of genealogical research. Her genealogical collection under the name "Lona McRee Elrod collection" is preserved at the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Georgia.
Contributor: L.L. Manning (46584674) • [email protected]
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