Kinmundy Historical Society

 

 

 

 

                    Kinmundy Grade School

                                                            and

    Kinmundy-Alma Grade School at Kinmundy

                           (late 1800's - 1949)

 

 

                                  Kinmundy, Marion County, Illinois

 

 

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        We are looking for photos of people and/or places from around Kinmundy & Alma.  Can you help?

Or maybe you have stories or memories from the "Good Old Days"?  What do YOU remember?

        The Kinmundy Historical Society would be honored to preserve your memories and stories.  We also have the

equipment to scan (or copy) your photos so that they may be enjoyed now as well as for generations yet to come!

        We would love to hear from you!  For more information, please contact: 

       

   Dolores (Ford) Mobley – Dolores@ford-mobley.com

                       208 Joan Dr.; Divernon, IL  62530; (217) 625-7527

            or

 

            Gladys (Corrie) See – gsee49@yahoo.com

                                         408 S. Washington St.; Kinmundy, IL 62854; (618) 547-7731

 

 

 

Click on this link for the webpage listing the Staff employed at Kinmundy Schools and Kinmundy-Alma Schools thru the years

 

 

Teachers from KINMUNDY SCHOOL – District #25 (Kinmundy, Illinois)

 

(1903-04)  F.J. Snapp - Supt. ($100);  Andrew Hunsaker ($60); LeRoy J. Nichols ($40);

                    Evelyn Killie ($32.50); Pauline Bagott ($32.50); Nellie McClure ($32.50); Nellie Mahan ($40)

 

Kinmundy School; late 1800s

Kinmundy School; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL – late 1800’s

Possibly taken at the first school in Kinmundy (built in 1857).  The building was located on Freemont Street, just north of the French home.)

 

 

Kinmundy School students; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL – 1889

 

 

Kinmundy School students; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL – Room 3 – Katie Grove, teacher - Feb. 7, 1890

Back Row: Katie Schooley, Della Sexton, Ellis Cheeley, Hank Gray, Charles Beaver, Otta Wolfe, James Geiser, Harmon Lenhart, Lea Center, Alvia Smith, Robert Steers, Lauris Nelson

Third Row: Maud George, Blanche Pruett, May Brenner, Irene Bawlin, Charlie Cullen, Stalker Williams, Charles Garner, Sephie Boughers, Ora Brown, Joe Eagan, Charlie Eagan

Second Row: Lillie Moody, Jessie Craig, Katie Beard, Millie Eagan, Minnie Sparkes, Brenice Ryan, Eldorze Eagan, Davis Haselton, Fred George, Charles Watts

Front Row: Gracie Mace, Ethel King, Mable Prudent, Mammie Howey, Gurttie Eagan, Pearl Sexton, Katie Grove – teacher, Lue King, Olif Thrane, Charlie White, John Allen, Aurthur Allen

(Probably) Kinmundy School students; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL - late 1800's - Room 4

 

 

(Probably) Kinmundy School students; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL - late 1800's - Room 5

 

 

 

 

Kinmundy School faculty; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL - ca1894

Back Row: Kate (Grove) Wormley, Maggie Meneely, Prof. Harry Miller, Nellie (Pruett) Housh, Mayme (Songer) Brown

Front Row: Susie Davis, Josie Haworth

 

 

Reward of Merit presented to Pearl Sexton by Mrs. B. Eagan - teacher.

 

(Possibly)Kinmundy Public School - circa 1900

 

 

1894 - Kinmundy Public School - certificate for Earnest Shaffer in 3rd Grade

 

 

Pupils: Alta Bagott, Minnie Smith, Ella Wickenhauser, Rhoda Davis, Edna Herrick, Bertha Allen, Ethel Ross, Dollie Smith, Martha (Mitchell) Stout,

Minnie Garner, Olga Nelson, Hazel Dennis, Pearl (Pruett) Mercer, Grace Hammer, Nola Harris, Nevada Wickenhauser, Pearl Jackson, Mary Williams,

Maude Sanders, Lotta Lynch, Mamie Baylis, Florence Baylis, Mamie Anderson, Margaret Anderson, Jennie Wade, Rhea Snelling, Lydia (Hults) Pitts,

Nettie Thomason, Nellie Hammer, Forrest Woolley, Edit Gunn, Mable Deiwert, Maude Kinnear, Ruby (Woolley) Simpson, Mable Barnhill, Edna See,

Nettie Bass, Maurice Nelm, Tollie Mendenhall, Orra Davis, Harry Maxey, Gussie Blackburn, Sammie Snelling, Earl Lathom, George Conant,

Oran Jackson, John Craig, Carl Matthews, Dannie Lovell, Ellis Wainscott

 

Directors: W.S. Mathews, F.J. Nirider, Thomas Bagott, Mrs. Abbie Babcock, A.W. Songer, A.M. Young, Mrs. Fannie Simpson

 

Co. Supt.: S.G. Burdick

 

Teacher: Anna Chalfant

 

 

 

 

Kinmundy Grammar School Commencement - 1902

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kinmundy Grammar School Commencement - 1903 - April 30, 1903

 

 

Class roll: Ethel Garner, Beulah Bundy, James Lowe, Jessie Williams, Arthur Parrish, Nora Spicer,

      Dott Neeper, Clemmie Whittenburg, Otis Charlton, Fannie Seward

Board of Education: S.R. Woolley, Mrs. M.A. Babcock, Mrs. Zarda Frost, J.C. Lynch, R.P. McBryde, M.P. Gramley, Thos. Bagott

Corps of Teachers: F.J. Snapp - Supt., O.A. James - Principal,

      F.W. Whitlock, Myrtle Wyatt, Maude Bayliss, Nellie McClure, Nellie Mahan.

 

 

Kinmundy School; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL – elementary class - possibly ca1903

Nellie Mahan - teacher (she would later add married name of Witwer)

 

 

Kinmundy School; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL – Room 1 – ca 1904

Back row: Prof. Davis, ____________, _____ Clayborn, Eugene Craig, Leona Barbee, Noel Sanders, Harriett Humphrey, Joe McGee, Katy Hammers,

George Haley, Edna Haley, Ruth Bayliss, Reuben Zindel, Cora Wilson, Clifford Downs, Florence Michalski, Worth Eagan, Hazel Readnour,

Lily Zigler, Miss Nellie Mahan

3rd row: Emery Lasater, Earl Bundy, Bell Abott, Xon Hanson, Nellie Bayliss, Arno Miller, Elsie Bates, Byron Vallow, Glen Parker, Clara Hammers,

Dorcas Harvey, Jenie? Carman, Beulah Williams, Lena Jessaman, Kamilia Michalski

2nd row: Bertha Cox, Edna Motch, Verna Payne, Tessa Harper, Jessie Fish, Lily Sweeney, Clo McGee, Hattie Bayliss, Neva Howell, Ethlyn Rohrbough,

Almelia Waggoner, Gracie Perry, Marion Green, Chester Hensley, Mayme French, Winnie Williams, Mary Buswell, Lenora Barbee

Front row: Frank Eagan, David Schooley, Earl Readnour, Francis Gilley, Lawrence Haley, Will Lyons, Harry Neil, Glen Parker, Earl Sweeney,

Toby Glosser, Harry Downs, Xleon Haworth, Edward Barrow, Lester Payne

 


Kinmundy School; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL – Room 2 – ca 1904

Back row: Prof. ________, Byron Barbee, Mary Thomason, Marcelyne Wolfe, Etta Carman, Georgia Larkin, Hiatt Spilman, Cecil Swalley,

Rosa Zindel, Xon Harlan, John Downs, Effie Sugg, Blanche Phillips, Reka Steuber

3rd row: Jessie Mercer, Mable Eagan, Francis Lemay, Abe Bayliss, Forrest Motch, Mary Gramley, Margaret French, Oswald Miller, Milton Hall,

Gordon Lowe

2nd row: Glen Boughers, Lewis Conant, Mildred Green, Alice Sexton, Edna Cox, Pearl Nicholason, Pansy Boughers, Opal Claybourn, Ray White,

Lois Nelms, Howard Bundy

Front row: Maxey Sugg, Byron Vallow, Will Neavills, Chas. Hammers, Fred Williams, Harvey Tull, Meter Vallow, Fred Eagan, Omer Readnour

 

 

Kinmundy School; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL – Room 5 – ca 1904

Back row: Prof. __________, Walter Neil, Harry Greening, Gail Nirider, George Smith, Ruth Humphrey, Goldie Howe, Wilford Snelling,

James Mitchel, Tom Neavills, James Scott

3rd row: Vera Lenhart, Bessie Sexton, Helen Rice, Hallie Dennis, Florence Motch, Jennie Davis, John Neville, Lawrence Eagan, Marcelyne Eagan,

Laretta Scott, Miss Grace Williams

2nd row: Lotta Bayliss, Webster Lowe, Flossie Harris, Myron Ross, Ben Craig, Mollie Williams, Edna Garner, Lois Clayborne, Clyde Davis

Front row: Elsten Green, George Bargh, Pleasant Robinett, David Williams, Herman Anna, Raymond Mahan, Devine Young, Glen Hammers, John French

 

 

Kinmundy Public Grade School - Room of students; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL  - ca  1906

 

Kinmundy Grammar School Commencement - 1906

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kinmundy Public Grade School - Room #1; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL  - 1907

 

 

 

Kinmundy Public Grade School - Room #2; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL  - 1907

(Mary Wilkinson wrote the following on the back of the photo)

1st Row - Glen Parker, ______ Jones, Amelia O'Brien, Leta Holman, Lily Ziegler, Dorcas Hawey, Harry Downs, Ethlyn Rohrbough,

Amelia Wagoner, Neva Howell, Hazel Bayliss.

2nd row- Igo Cox, Millie Lyons; 8th from left  - Mary Wilkinson

 

 

Kinmundy Public Grade School – Room #3; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL – 1907

 

 

 

Kinmundy Public Grade School – Grade #5; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL – 1907

 

 

Kinmundy Public Grade School – Grade #6; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL – 1907

 

 

Kinmundy Public Grade School – Grade #7; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL – 1907

 

 

Kinmundy Public Grade School – Grade #8; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL – 1907

 

Kinmundy Grade School - 8th grade graduating class; Kinmundy, IL - probably 1907

Boy on far left: Herman Anna;

Boy in very back with blond hair parted in middle: Myron C. Ross

Boy in the middle behind the two girls in middle: possibly Webster Lowe

 

Graduating from 8th grade according to "The Kinmundy Express" on May 16, 1907 were: Lois Clayborn, John French, Edna Garner, Hallie Dennis, Webster Lowe, Herman Anna, Ruple Jones, Pleasant Robnett, Goldie Howe, Ruby Schermerhorn, Bessie Sexton, Irene See, Harry Greening, Fred Reeder, James Scott, Myron Ross, Forest Reeder.

 

 

 

Kinmundy Grammar School Commencement - 1907

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

Kinmundy Grade School - 8th grade graduating class; Kinmundy, IL - early 1900's - Miss Pauline Bagott, teacher (middle of back row)

 

 

 

1910 Kinmundy School and new building

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kinmundy Public Grade School; 1910

Kinmundy Grade School students; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL - 1910

Teachers in back: Mary Shriver and Professor Harwood

Third row: Frieda Flanigan, Hazel Boughers, Leonard Zumsteg, Edmund Perry, Henry Boyd, Geraldine Hammers, Sarah Hyde, Dorothy Pruett,

Thelma Witwer, Nell Doolen

Second row: Mildred Hayworth, Louise Hill, Mary Miner, Ruth Boughers, Milton Bayliss, Eugene McClure, Victor Bocock, Glen Lee, ______________,

Joy Fields, Kleon Pruett, _____________ Halice Lewis

First row: Cecil Curry, ______________, Walter Harvey, Hugh Parrish, Barney Nix, _____________, Glen Hyde, Leone Warren, Lucille Tomlinson,

Helen Tomlinson, Gladys Harvey

 

 

Kinmundy Grade School students; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL - soon after 1910?

Teachers in back: __________ and Mary Shriver

 

Kinmundy Grade School

Kinmundy Grade School class; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL – Mary Shriver - teacher - unknown year (ca 1910’s)?

(This was found on a postcard sent to George Young of Alma, IL)

 

 

Kinmundy Grade School

Kinmundy Grade School; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL – unknown year (ca 1910’s?) – 1st and 2nd grade

Possibly Frances (Etherton), 2nd row, 3rd from right.  If it it, this was 1913-1914.

 

Kinmundy School students; 1920

Kinmundy Grade School; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL – circa 1910's?

 

Kinmundy School students; 1914

Kinmundy School students; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL – Postmark on postcard was October 1914

1st girl white dress possibly Esther Pruett

 

 

Kinmundy School 8th grade graduates; 1913

(possibly)_Kinmundy School 8th grade graduates; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL – ca 1913 

Mary Wilkinson marked with (x)

 

Kinmundy Public School students; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL – ca 1914

 

 

Kinmundy Public School students; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL – ca 1914

 

 

Kinmundy Public School students; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL – ca 1914 – upper grades – Miss Pauline Bagott, teacher

Miss Pauline Bagott on far right in white blouse

 

 

Kinmundy Public School students; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL – ca 1915

Cecil Curry (Row 2 - 7th from left)

 

 

Kinmundy Public School students; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL – ca 1910s - Miss Pauline Bagott, teacher

 

Kinmundy Public School; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL – 1916 graduating class – 8th grade

Florence Jack in middle row - 2nd from right

 

Some of those who graduated from Kinmundy H.S. in 1920 would be in this photo:

Charles West, Martha Morgan, Florence Jack, Pansy Chapman, Ruby Hanna, Lois (Kline) Greenwood, Henry Shufeldt,

Helen (Maxey) Sipes, Zelma Vallow, Joe Ramser, Marjorie (Wade) Green, Roland Allen, Mildred (Pullen) Bargh, Ruth  (Atkins) Backensto,

Coy Ingram, Alta (Sutton) Snelling, Elizabeth (Claytor) Moore, Herma (Hamilton) Lane, Rochelle (Inman) Baker, Nita (Winks) White, Fyke Rotan

 

 

Kinmundy Grade School; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL – circa 1918 (partial graduated with Kinmundy High School in 1924)

Alice (Lewin) French is possibly in front row in middle with plaid dress\

 

Kinmundy Public School; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL – 1919-1920 graduating class – 8th grade (Photo #1)

 

Back row: Clayton Messer, Lura (Williams) Robnett - teacher, Alice (French) Lewin, Eli Doolin, Mary Esther (Williams) Jones, Polly Bagott - teacher, Humphrey Gramley.

Middle row: Minnie "Helen" Dickens, Edith Wolfe, Aletha Proudfit, Mildred Ingram, Mildred Chance, Thelma Boyd.

Front row: Cecil Curry, Harvey Gray, Florus Carmean

 

Kinmundy Public School; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL – 1919-1920 graduating class – 8th grade (Photo #2)

Back row: Cecil Curry, Lura (Williams) Robnett, Alice (French) Lewin, Eli Doolen, Mary Esther (Williams) Jones, Polly Bagott - teacher, Humphrey Gramley

Middle row: Minnie "Helen" Dickens, Edith Wolfe, Aletha Proudfit, Mildred Ingram, Mildred Chance, Thelma Boyd

Bottom row: Clayton Messer, Harvey Gray, Florus Carmean

 

Kinmundy Grade School Class (some probably graduated with the Kinmundy High School Graduating Class of 1925)

 

 

Kinmundy Grade School; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL; 8th grade graduation class - May 1921

Possibly Clyde Morgan in first row - last boy;

Frances (Boyd) Etherton would be in that class too, and it was her photo.

 

Some in the photo would be those who graduated with the class from K.H.S. in May 1925:

Ruth (Breen) Miller, Alta (McClaine) Lee, Freida (Smith) Smithson, Wilma Boughers,

John Lee, Noel Hockaday, Clyde Morgan, Burdette Walkington,

Ruth (Hanna) Knabe, Louise (Hill) Hatfield, Thelma Beaver, Frances (Boyd) Etherton

Frances (Boyd) Etherton would be in that class too?

 

 

Kinmundy Grade School; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL; 8th grade graduation class - 1922

Back row: Mr. Mallrich (Supt.), Miss Pauline Baggott (teacher), Mrs. Mamie Brown (teacher), John Hanson, Fred Wilson,

     Russell Williams, Elwin Ingram

Third row: Elven Arad “Rad” McClure, Dwight Alexander, Nelle (Ingram) Ray, John Boyd, Mary (Nochman) Banach, Clyde Schooley,

   Ella Mae Ford, Fred Hockaday

Second row: Margaret (Warren) Shufeldt, Frank Lee, Bernice (Evans) Ketchem, Bill Humphrey, Ruth (Lacey) Mullen Naffziger, Finis Hamilton,

   Katherine Wormley, Howard Wilkinson

Front row: Merle Nirider, Alice (Ballance) Stevenson, Walter Doolen, Marcelline (Zumsteg) Sloan, Lynn Porter, Dorothy (Widdis) Eakin,

   Wesley Morgan, Rhea (Hill) Williams

 

May 19, 1922 diploma from Kinmundy Grade School - Howard Wilkinson

 

 Kinmundy Grade School -2nd Grade; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL – 1922-1923

Top Row: 2nd person - Maxine George

Bottom Row: 3rd person - Fred Gammon; 4th person - Willard Schooley, 7th person - Francis Hammer

 

 

Kinmundy Grade School -2nd Grade; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL – 1924

Edward M Jones - 2nd from left in the front row

 

Kinmundy Grade School, Grade 1; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL – Oct. 10, 1924

John Phillips is standing in back row next to the teacher.

 

(Teacher would possibly be one of the following: Ruth Rohrbough, Veda Jones, or Mrs. V.V. Barcroft)

Kinmundy Grade School, Grades 2 & 3; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL – Oct. 10, 1924; Teacher – Fannie Eagan

Walter B. Pruett (front row, 3rd from left)

 

Kinmundy Grade School; 1925

Kinmundy Grade School, Grades 1 & 2; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL – Sept. 23, 1925; Teacher – Fannie Eagan

Bob Hanna, 2nd year of school

 

Kinmundy Grade School, Grades 3 & 4; Kinmundy, Marion Co.,  IL – Sept. 23, 1925 - Teacher-Veda Jones

Back Row: Orval Spurlin, George Green, Frank Boyd, Francis Hammer, Paul Green (or Wydell Pigg?), Joe Brimberry,

             Dean Crain, Mitch Lowe, Dale Hammer, Veda Jones (teacher)

3rd Row: Joe Ingram, Virginia (Piper) Fisher, Laura Lee Davis, Elsie Brumley, Dorothy (Phillips) Schooley, Marjory LeMay,

              Thelma Brimberry, Clark Schooley

2nd Row: Fredrick Pruett, Loren Spurlin, Walter B. Pruett, Bill Wilson, Ray Ingram, Charles Young, Cecil Brim, Kelly Simmons

Front Row: Harriet Brown, Pearl (Jackson) Hohn, Alma Jones, Edith Wilson (or Marie Knight),

                  Dorothy Hamilton (or Marcella Wittbracht), Elizabeth (George) Lux Boyd

 

 

 

Kinmundy Public School, Grades 5 & 6; Kinmundy, IL – Mamie S. Brown - Teacher; Sept. 23, 1925

4th Row: Howard Hammer, Fred Gammon, Willard Schooley, Charles Neaville, _______________, Ray Boughers, Dwight Hanna,

Winifred Yearian, Lewie Wilson, _________________, Jesse George, George Jones, Harold Howell

3rd Row: ___________, Lenora (Doolen) Lowe, Alecia (Mendenhall) White, Mildred Shaffer, Christine Keen, _____________,

Marshall Lemay, Flora Brimberry, Mary Fields, Anna Virginia Rohrbough, Verniece Hall

2nd Row: Robert Lee, _______________, Richard Schwabe, Fred John Nirider, Jack Retherford, Chester Hanson, Charles Brim,

Walter Neavill, Clifton Lemay, Joe Slovick

Front Row: Dorothy Ingram, Maxine Spencer, Ida Mae Wilson, Geneva Malinsky, Marie Knight, Eva Maxine George, Wanda Zumsteg,

Ella Jackson

 

 

 

Kinmundy Grade School; 1925

 

Kinmundy School; Grades 7 & 8; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL; Alice French, teacher – Oct. 3, 1925

 

 

Kinmundy Public School, Grades 1 & 2; Kinmundy, IL – Fannie Eagan, teacher; Oct. 13, 1926

Back row: 1) Fannie Eagan - teacher, 2) __________, 3) ___________, 4) ___________, 5)___________, 6) ___________,

                 7)____________, 8) ___________

Middle row:  1) __________, 2) __________, 3) ___________, 4) ___________, 5)___________, 6) ___________, 7)____________,

                   8)___________, 9) __________

Front row:  1) __________, 2) __________, 3) ___________, 4) ___________, 5)___________, 6) ___________ (holding sign),

                   7)____________(holding sign),  8) Maxey Spencer, 9) __________, 10) ___________, 11) ___________

 

 

Kinmundy Public School – 5th & 6th grades; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL; Mamie Brown – teacher; Oct. 13, 1926

Back row: Mary Fields, Mildred Shaffer, Verniece Hall, Chester Hansen, Winnifred Yearian

3rd Row: George Jones, Fred Gammon, Dorothy (Phillips) Schooley, Maxine Spencer, Marie Knight, Howard Hammer, Francis Hammer, Willard Schooley,

Wanda Zumsteg, Frank Boyd

2nd Row: Mamie Brown (teacher), Lauralee Davis, Virginia Piper, Charles Brim, Joe Ingram, Marjorie Lemay, Fred John Nirider, Harold Howell,

Dorothy Ingram, Edith Mae Wilson, Maxine George

Front Row: Marcella Whitbragh, Noel Wood, Elizabeth George, Frederick Pruett, Mitchell Lowe, Walter B. Pruett, Burdette Swift, Clark Schooley,

Richard Schwabe, Robert Lee, Geneva Malinsky, Dorothy Hamilton

(Identification by Mrs. Marie Knight Martin & Mrs. Dorothy Phillips Schooley)

 


Kinmundy School, 8th Grade Graduation; 1926

 

Kinmundy School, 8th Grade Graduation; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL - 1926   

Back row - Merle Jackson, Glen White, Wayne Black, Paul Gray, Mrs. Wright, Raymond Hayworth, Miss Ruth Rohrbough

Front row: - Loy Morris, Coatny Fowler, Teddy Lee, Fred Boyd, Martha Jackson, Annalou (Rotan) Hanna, Dorothy (Garrett) Sullens, Lewis Cornell

 

 

Kinmundy School; Grades 1 & 2; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL; Fannie Eagan - teacher; Oct. 1927

Back row: 1) __________, 2) __________, 3) ___________, 4) Maxey Spencer, 5)___________, 6) ___________,

                 7) Richard "Dick" Williams, 8) Fannie Eagan - teacher

Middle row:  1) __________, 2) __________, 3) ___________, 4) ___________, 5)___________, 6) ___________, 7) Art Boyd,

                   8)___________, 9) __________, 10) ___________

Front row:  1) __________, 2) __________, 3) ___________, 4) ___________, 5) Helen (Miller) House Phipps, 6) ___________,

                   7)____________(holding sign),  8) ___________ (holding sign),  9) __________, 10) ___________,

                   11) ___________, 12) ____________

 

Kinmundy School; Grades 3 & 4; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL – Oct. 1927;  Hester Heaton, teacher

Back row: 1) _________, 2) __________, 3) ___________, 4) ___________, 5)___________, 6) ___________, 7)____________,

                  8)__________, 9)__________, 10)___________, 11)?Glen Aldrich, 12) __________

Middle  row: 1) __________, 2) __________, 3) James Pigg, 4)_________, 5)___________, 6)_________, 7) ___________,

                  8) __________, 9)___________, 10) __________

Front row: 1) Hester Heaton  - teacher, 2) __________, 3) ___________, 4) ___________, 5) ?James Hammer, 6) Carl Pruett,

                   7) ___________, 8) __________, 9) ?John See, 10)__________

 

 

Kinmundy School; Grades 5 & 6; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL; Alice (French) Lewin, teacher – Oct. 1927

Dale Hammer is last one in second row

Francis Hammer is second from the left in the back row

 

Kinmundy School; Grades 3 & 4; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL; Hester Heaton, teacher; circa 1927

Back row: 1) __________, 2) __________, 3) ___________, 4) ___________, 5)___________, 6) ___________,

                 7)____________, 8) Hester Heaton - teacher

Middle row:  1) __________, 2) Maxey Spencer, 3) ___________, 4) ___________, 5)___________, 6) ___________, 7)____________,

                   8)___________, 9) __________, 10) ___________. 11) __________, 12) __________

Front row:  1) __________, 2) __________, 3) ___________, 4) ___________, 5) __________, 6) ___________ (holding sign),

                   7)____________(holding sign),  8) ___________,  9) __________, 10) ___________,

                   11) Richard "Dick" Williams, 12) ____________

 

 

Kinmundy School;  Grades 7 & 8; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL; Alice (French) Lewin, teacher – 1927-28

Back Row: ________________, Maxine Spencer, Chester Hanson, ________________, Wanda Zumsteg, Lewis Wilson, Ray Boughers,

Howard Hammer, Marjorie Lemay

3rd Row: ________________, Frank Boyd, Dorothy Phillips, Fred Gammon

2nd Row: Virginia Piper, Harold Howell, Edith Mae Wilson, Francis Hammer, John Robert Robb, _______________,

_______________, Joe Ingram, _________________, Marie Knight, Jack Retherford, ______________, Willard Schooley

Front Row: Walter B. Pruett, Mitchell Lowe, Elizabeth George, Maxine George, Lauralee Davis, Dorothy Ingram, Lorraine Baylis,

Dorothy Hamilton, Richard Schwabe, Geneva Malinsky, Robert Lee

 

 

Kinmundy School; Grades 1 & 2; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL; Frances (Boyd) Etherton - teacher; ca 1928

 

 

Kinmundy School; Grades 3 & ; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL; Frances (Boyd) Etherton - teacher; ca 1928

Back row: : 1) __________, 2) __________, 3) ___________, 4)_________, 5)___________, 6) ___________, 7) ___________,

Third row: 1) _________, 2) __________, 3) ___________, 4) ___________, 5)___________, 6) ___________, 7)____________,

                  8)__________, 9)__________

Second  row: 1) __________, 2) __________, 3) ___________, 4)_________, 5)___________, 6) ___________, 7) ___________,

                  8) ______________, 9)___________, 10)___________, 11)______________, 12) Hester Heaton - teacher

Front row: 1) _________, 2) __________, 3) ___________, 4) ___________, 5) _____________6) _______________,

                   7) __________(holding sign), 8) _________(holding sign), 9) ?James Pigg, 10) Burton Piper, 11)____________, 12)____________

 

 

Kinmundy School; 1928

 

Kinmundy School; 7th and 8th grades; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL; Mary E. Shriver, teacher; ca 1928

(not sure of the order)

(5th??): Tiona Eagan, Sophia Slovic, Lu _____?, Marjorie Williams, Alice Malone, Electa Crane, Lenora (Doolen) Lowe, Kathleen McClure, Hazel Farris

(4th row??): Florence McCulley, Roberta Jones, Helen Winniger, Ross Crowder, Louis Wilson, Roy Boughers, Anna V. Rohrbough, Alicia (Mendenhall) White

(Others?): Elliot Thoms, Dwight Hanna, Roy Davis, Rex Gammon, Forrest Thoms, Harry Richerson, Alvina Hall, Flora Brimberry, Christeen Keen, John Robb,

Homer Knight, Donald Hamilton, Arno Smith, Arno Spurlin, James Richerson

 

 

Kinmundy School; Grades 1 & 2; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL; Frances (Boyd) Etherton - teacher; Sept. 18, 1929

 

 

Kinmundy School; Grades 3 & 4; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL; Hester Heaton - teacher; Sept. 18, 1929

 

 

Kinmundy School; Grades 7 & 8; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL; Alice French - teacher; Sept. 18, 1929

 

 

Walter B. Pruett - Illinois Pupils Reading Circle Diploma - May 21, 1930

 

 

 

Walter B. Pruett - Eighth Grade Diploma from Kinmundy Public Schools - May 21, 1930

 

 

Kinmundy School;  Room 1; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL; Frances (Boyd) Etherton, teacher – Sept. 30, 1930

 

 

Kinmundy School;  Grades 5 & 6; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL; Myrtle Hill, teacher – Sept. 30, 1930

Back row: 1) Myrtle Hill - teacher, 2) __________, 3) John Phillips, 4) ___________, 5)___________, 6) ___________,

                 7)____________, 8) ___________, 9____________

Middle row:  1) __________, 2) ____________, 3) ___________, 4) ___________, 5)___________, 6) ___________, 7)____________,

                   8) Wayne Pigg, 9) __________, 10) Richard "Dick" Williams. 11) __________, 12) __________

Front row:  1) __________, 2) __________, 3) ___________, 4) Howard Robb, 5) __________, 6) ___________,

                   7)____________(holding sign),  8) ___________,  9) __________, 10) Art Boyd,

                   11) ___________, 12) Maxey Spencer

 

 

Kinmundy School;  Grades 5 & 6; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL; Myrtle Hill, teacher – 1931

Back Row: Myrtle Hill - teacher, _______________, ________________, ________________, _______________, ________________,

                  _______________, George Keen, _____ Hammer

Middle Row: Jim Eagan, ______________, _______________, T.E. "Tuffy" Trout, Hugo Shanafelt, ______________, ______________,

                 Wayne Pigg, ______________, _______________, ________________

Front Row: __________________, _____ Hammer, Wilmadene (Trout) Theimann, ________________, _______________, ________________,

                 Art Boyd, _______________, _________________

 

Kinmundy School;  Grades 7 & 8; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL; Alice French, teacher – Oct. 1931

Back row: 1) _________, 2) __________, 3)  __________, 4) ___________, 5)___________, 6) ___________,  

   7)____________, 8) Harry Bremer, 9____________, 10) ___________, 11)Alice (French) Lewin - teacher

Middle row: 1) _________, 2) __________, 3)  __________, 4) Marion “Buddy” Brimberry, 5)___________,

   6) ___________,    7)____________, 8) Emogene (Shufeldt) Anderson, 9) Xon Schooley, 10) ___________, 11)___________

Front row: 1) _________, 2) __________, 3) James Wydell Pigg, 4) Earl Robert Schwabe, 5)___________, 6) ___________,   

   7)____________, 8) ?Junior Gordon, 9)____________, 10) Carl Pruett, 11)___________

 

 

Kinmundy School;  Grades 3 & 4; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL; Hester Heaton, teacher – Sept. 14, 1932

 

 

 

 

Kinmundy Grade School; Room III; Margaret (Warren) Shufeldt – teacher; Oct. 11, 1933

Back Row: Harry Gray, Helen Curry, Wanda Meyers, Eileen Lacey, ______________, Lyle Barbee, Thelma Brimberry,

        Charles Dodson, Guin Vallow, Miss Margaret Warren - teacher

Middle Row: Marion Earl “Buddy” Brimberry, Edith Wiley, Eileen (George) Heicher Schwabe, Betty Gordon, Nancy (Lowe) Smith,

        Edna Mae Lowe, Virginia (Brown) Kalenberger, Violet Schmidt, Helen (Pruett) Smith, Noah Eagan

Front Row: Robert Mahan, Richard Motch, Shirley Miller, Dorothy Boughers, Dorothy (Barbee) Wilkey, Bennie Doolen, Annette (Vallow) Pagano.

        Kenneth Jackson, Harold Page, Emmerson Jones, Arthur Boughers

 

 

Kinmundy Grade School; Grades 1 & 2; Margaret (Warren) Shufeldt – teacher; Sept. 14, 1932

Back Row: Donna (Gray) Cox, Margaret (Barbee) Gray, Charles Lee Doolen, Billy Parks, Billy Hockaday, Leon Jones, John Boughers,

       Ruby (Reese) Schreier, Virginia (Keen) Green, Leona (Jackson) Essary, Miss Margaret Warren - teacher

Middle Row: Helen (Jackson) Mingee, ____________, Pleasant Robnett, Harold Pickens, Herschel Brim, Harold Chance,

       _______ Thompson, Mildred (Boughers) Glen, ______________

Front Row: Christine (Trout) Zinser, David Lowe, Duane Hanna, Helen (Brimberry) Patterson Williams, Kathleen (Brown) Day,

      James Chance, Calvin Barbee, George Bargh, Kenneth Pigg, Eileen Shanafelt, ______________

 

Kinmundy School; Grades 5 & 6; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL - Sept. 18, 1932; Myrtle Hill, teacher

 

 

 

Kinmundy School; Room IV; (Probably) Grades 7 and 8; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL - Sept. 14, 1932; Alice French, teacher

Back row: 1) Dale Ballance, 2) __________, 3) ?Christy Earl Gentry, 4) ___________, 5) John Phillips, 6) ___________, 7)____________,

                  8)__________, 9)__________, 10)___________

Third row:  1) __________, 2) __________, 3) James Hammer, 4) ___________, 5)?Earl Schwabe, 6) ?Margaret Helm, 7)____________,  8)___________

Second row: 1) Wayne Pigg, 2) __________, 3) ___________, 4) Carl Pruett, 5) Howard Robb, 6) ___________, 7) Maxey Spencer,

                  8) Alice (French) Lewin - teacher

Front row: 1) Alberta (Jackson) Geibe, 2) __________, 3) ___________, 4) ___________, 5) Louis C. Ingram (holding sign), 6) Art Boyd (holding sign),

                   7) Richard "Dick" Williams, 8) Jim Eagan, 9) _____________

 

 

Kinmundy Grade School; Room I (Grades 1 & 2); Elizabeth Holt – teacher; Oct. 11, 1933

(High school graduating classes of 1944 and 1945)

Back Row: 1) Miss Elizabeth Holt-teacher, 2) Billy Hockaday, 3)_____________, 4) Leon Jones, 5) Virginia (Keen) Green, 6) Pleasant H. "Bud" Robnett, 7)_____________, 8) Donna (Gray) Cox, 9) Margaret (Barbee) Gray

Middle Row: 1) John Boughers, 2)___________, 3)_____________, 4) Imogene Shanafelt, 5)______________, 6)_____________, 7)_____________, 8)____________, 9)_____________, 10)____________, 11)_____________

Front Row: 1) Cora Lee (Garner) Good, 2) Gene Coatney, 3)_____________, 4)_____________, 5) Helen (Brimberry) Patterson, 6)_____________, 7)_____________, 8)____________, 9)_____________, 10)____________, 11)_____________

 

 

Kinmundy School; Grades 7 and 8; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL - Sept. 18, 1933; Alice French, teacher

Back row: 1) Alice (French) Lewin - teacher, 2) __________, 3) ___________, 4) ___________, 5) Hugo Shanafelt, 6) Maxey Spencer,

                  7) Theodore "Tuffy" Trout

Standing on middle step:  1) __________, 2) __________, 3) Wayne Pigg, 4) ___________, 5)___________, 6) ___________,

                   7)____________, 8)___________, 9) __________, 10) ___________, 11) Darrell Reese

Standing on bottom step: 1) Jim Eagan, 2) __________, 3) Art Boyd, 4) ?Gladys (Mercer) Kline, 5)___________, 6) ___________,

                   7) ?Wayne Robb (holding sign),  8)___________ (holding sign) , 9) James Hammer, 10) Wilmadean Trout,

                   11) ___________, 12) Richard "Dick" Williams

 

 

Kinmundy Grade School; Room I (Grades 1 & 2); Elizabeth Holt – teacher; Oct. 1, 1934

(High school graduating classes of 1945 and 1946)

Back Row: 1) Betty Boughers, 2) ?Norma Gail (Robb) Bratcher, 3) Sue "Sudie" (Sadler) Vugteveen, 4) Norma (Miller) Elet,

5) Betty (Barcroft) Dodd, 6) Richard Maulding, 7) Jimmy Robnett, 8) Billy Hockaday, 9) Bobbie Sadler, 10) __________,

11) ?Leroy Van Scyoc, 12)__________, 13) Carl B. Vallow, 14) Mona (West) Watson, 15) ?Kenneth Lacey

Front Row: 1) Dolores (Shanafelt) Tolliver, 2) Helen (George) Jezek Teeter, 3) Cora Lee (Garner) Good 4) Helen (Brimberry) Patterson,

5) Imogene Shanafelt, 6) Calvin Barbee, 7) Carl Parker, 8) ?Ruth _______, 9) Bill Jackson (holding slate), 10) Max Mercer,

11) Eileen (Eagan) Garrett, 12) Gene Coatney, 13) Vernon ______, 14) Henry Spencer, 15) Joann (Alexander) Heffernan

 

 

Kinmundy School;  Grades 5 & 6; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL; Margaret (Warren) Shufeldt, teacher – Oct. 1, 1934

Back Row: Perry Neaville, Charles Dodson, Harry Gray, Guin Vallow, Earl “Buddy” Brimberry, Miss Margaret Warren - teacher,

      Edith (Sadler) Phillips, Mable (Keen) Olden Jackson, Ershal Jenkins, Nancy (Lowe) Smith

Third Row: Delos “Brownie” Dodson, Bennie Doolen, Noah Eagan, Louis Spurlin, Donald Miller, Lavern Keen, Teddy Lutjeans,

      Annette (Vallow) Pagano, Helen (Pruett) Blyth, Violet Schmidt, Dorthea (Barbee) Wilkey, Frances (Coatney) Jasper, Eileen Shanafelt

Second Row: Ann (Mercer) See, Donna (Maulding) Rainey, Opal (Eagan) Zimmer, Sarah Sadler, Barbara (Miller) Ribley,

      Eileen (Parker) Altman, Dorothy Boughers, Kenneth Jackson, Harold Page, Harold Miller

Front Row: Leroy See, Charles Diss, Charles Vallow, Junior Van Scyoc, Charles Meyers, John Piper, Charles Jasper, Arthur Boughers,

      Richard Jones, Billy Hill

 

 

Kinmundy School;  Grades 7 & 8; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL; Alice (French) Lewin, teacher – Oct. 1934

Back Row: ______________,  _____ Brimberry, ?Darrel Reese, _______________, T.E. "Tuffy Trout, _______________, _________________,

                  _________________, _________________, __________________, Alice (French) Lewin - teacher

Middle Row: _____________, ______________, _______________, ________________, _______ Jenkins, Harriet Brown, ________________,

                  Eileen (George) Schwabe Heicher, _______________, Wilmadene Trout

Front Row: Jim Eagan, __________________, _________________, ________________, ________________, Wayne Robb,

                 James/Delbert Hammer, Hugo Shanafelt

 

 

 

Kinmundy Grade School; Grades 5 & 6; Margaret (Warren) Shufeldt – teacher; Oct. 3, 1935

Back Row: Harry Gray, Perry Neaville, Noah Eagan, Mable (Keen) Olden Jackson, Betty Thompson, Frances (Coatney) Jasper, Ershal Jenkins,

     Helen Aumiller, Eileen Shanafelt, Thelma (Olden) Ingram, Miss Margaret Warren – teacher

Middle Row: Charles Meyer, Arthur Boughers, Leland Olden, Charles V. Vallow, Lavern Keen, Bill Hill, Charles Jasper, Richard Jones,

     Margaret (Barbee) Gray, ? Leona (Jackson) Essary, Ann (Mercer) See

Front Row: Opal (Eagan) Zimmer, Barbara (Miller) Ribley, ?Leona (Jackson) Essary, Katherine (Brimberry) Scott, _____ Richardson,

     Charles Diss, Junior VanScyoc, Jean (Vallow) Keen, Christine (Trout) Zinser, Ruby (Reese) Schreier, Eileen (Parker) Altman, Donna (Maulding) Rainey

 

 

Kinmundy School; Grades 7 & 8; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL - Oct. 3, 1935; Alice French, teacher (Classes of 1940 & 1941)

Back row: 1) Alice French - teacher, 2)__________, 3) Marion Earl "Buddy" Brimberry, 4)___________, 5) Guin Vallow, 6)__________, 7) Charles Jenkins

Middle row: 1) Virginia (Brown) Kalenberger, 2) Robert Mahan, 3___________, 4)___________, 5) ?Eileen (George) Heicher Schwabe, 6) ?Annette (Vallow) Pagano, 7)____________, 8) Dorthea (Barbee) Wilkey, 9) Nancy (Lowe) Smith

Front row: 1) Bennie Doolen, 2)__________, 3___________, 4)___________, 5) __________, 6)__________, 7)____________, 8) __________

 

 

 

Kinmundy Grade School; Grades 5 & 6; Margaret (Warren) Shufeldt – teacher; Oct. 1, 1936

Back Row: ___________, Helen (Jackson) Mingee, Katherine (Brimberry) Scott, Margaret (Barbee) Gray, Lavern Keen, Perry Neaville,

    Bill Hill, Junior VanScyoc, Pleasant H. "Bud" Robnett, Ershal Jenkins, Miss Margaret Warren – teacher

Middle Row: Jean (Vallow) Keen, Leona (Jackson) Essary, Virginia (Keen) Green, Betty Fields, ____________, Marie (Parrish) Gearhart,

    Leon Jones, Herschel Brim

Front Row: Ruby (Reese) Schreier, _____________, _____________, Charles Lee Doolen, Kathleen (Brown) Day, Kenneth Pigg,

    Christine (Trout) Zinser, David Lowe, Duane Hanna, George Bargh

 

 

Kinmundy School; 1930s

Kinmundy School;  Grades 7 & 8; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL; Alice (French) Lewin, teacher – Oct. 1936 (Classes of 1941 & 1942)

Back row: 1)_______, 2) Annette (Vallow) Pagano, 3)Harry Gray, 4)__________, 5) Guin Vallow, 6)_______, 7) Marion Earl "Buddy" Brimberry, 8)Mable (Keen) Olden Jackson, 9)Noah Eagan, 10)_______, 11) Charles Jenkins

Middle row: 1)?Louis Spurlin, 2) Donald Miller, 3)Nancy (Lowe) Smith, 4)_________, 5)_______, 6)________, 7)_______, 8)_______, 9)________, 10) Alice (French) Lewin - teacher

Front row: 1)_______, 2)_______, 3) Charles Diss, 4) Opal (Eagan) Zimmer, 5)_______, 6)Donna (Maulding) Rainey, 7)_______, 8)Barbara (Miller) Ribley, 9)Bennie Doolen, 10)Eileen (Parker) Altman, 11)_______

 

 

Kinmundy Grade School; Grades 5 & 6; Margaret (Warren) Shufeldt – teacher; Oct. 1937

Back Row: Charles Lee Doolen, _____________, Marie (Parrish) Gearhart, Betty (Barcroft) Dodd, Virginia (Keen) Green, Donna (Gray) Cox,

      Leland Olden, Billy Hockaday, David Lowe, Herschel Brim, Leon Jones

Front Row: Duane Hanna, Kenneth Pigg, ___________, Kathleen (Brown) Day, Norma (Miller) Elet, George Bargh, Richard Maulding,

     John Boring, Calvin Barbee, Charles Parker

 

Kinmundy Grade School; Grades 5 & 6; Margaret (Warren) Shufeldt – teacher; March 16, 1938

Back Row: Herschel Brim, Mildred (Boughers) Glen, Virginia (Keen) Green, Dorothy Mae Finn, Pleasant H. "Bud" Robnett, Donna (Gray) Cox,

       Billy Hockaday, Leon Jones, Betty (Barcroft) Dodd, Miss Margaret Warren – teacher

Middle Row: John Piper, Kenneth Pigg, Kathleen (Brown) Day, Norma (Miller) Elet, Richard Maulding, Charles Parker,

       Walter Boring, Joe Feather, David Lowe

Front Row: __________, Duane Hanna, ___________, Leland Olden, Charles Lee Doolen, George Bargh

 

 

Kinmundy Grade School; Grades 5 & 6; Margaret (Warren) Shufeldt – teacher; Sept. 23, 1938

Back Row: Leroy VanScyoc, Carl Vallow, Leah (Williams) Vallow, Leland Olden, Dorothy Mae Finn, Donna (Gray) Cox, Billy Hockaday,

     Betty (Barcroft) Dodd, Bobby Hoyt, Norma (Miller) Elet, Walter Boring

Middle Row: Joann (Alexander) Heffernan, Mona (West) Watson, Gayle Robb, Helen (George) Jezek, Eileen (Eagan) Garrett,

     Lucille Tate, Eileen Shanafelt, Helen (Brimberry) Patterson Williams, Laura Sigrist, Cora Lee (Garner) Good, Agnes Boring

Front Row: Jimmy Robnett, Richard Bailey, Ralph Finn, Henry Spencer, Richard Maulding, Charles Parker, Bobby Livesay,

     Joe Feather, Gene Coatney, Bill Jackson

 

Kinmundy Grade School; Grades 5 & 6; Oct. 14, 1939; Margaret (Warren) Shufeldt – teacher

Back Row: Naomi Barrall, Jimmie Robnett, _______ Barrall, Zola (Robnett) Blomberg, Ralph Finn, ______________,

    Eileen (Eagan) Garrett, Gayle Robb, Naomi (Simmons) Sullivan, Eileen Shanafelt?, Laura Sigrist, Helen (Brimberry) Patterson Williams, Gene Coatney

Third Row: Miss Margaret Warren - teacher; Eileen Shanafelt, Henry Spencer, Sue "Sudie" (Sadler) Vugteveen, Henry Blackwell, Raymond Shaffer,

    Betty (Geiler) Jenkins, Leroy Hall, Josephine Gillespie, Cora Lee (Garner) Good, Joann (Alexander) Heffernan, Mona (West) Watson.

Second Row: Elizabeth Williams, Ruth (Wright) Basic, Charles Bassett, Richard Bailey, ____________, Barbara Murphy,

    Arlene (Zimmer) Roberts, Betty Lee, Lester Vandeveer, Max Mercer, Mary Lou (Followell) Bell, Marilyn (Miller) Maulding Kaytor,

    Junior Diss, George Davis

Front Row: Leroy Van Scyoc, Charles Garden, Carl Vallow, _____________, John Boughers, James Hall, Bobby Hoyt

 

 

Kinmundy School; Grades 7 and 8; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL - Oct. 24, 1939

Back Row: __________________, ___________________, __________________, _________________, Bud Robnett, _______________,

Helen Jackson

Middle Row: Kathleen (Brown) Day, Mildred (Boughers) Glen, ______________, David Lowe, Virginia Keen, ______________, _______________,

Leon Jones, Alice (French) Lewin (teacher)

Front Row: ________________, ______________, Charles Lee Doolen, _______________, George Bargh, Kenny Pigg, Charles Parker, Joe Feather,

Richard Maulding, Elizabeth Blackwell

 

8th grade class in May 1940 of Mrs. Alice (French) Lewin's 8th grade class

 

 

Kinmundy School - Last day of School picnic for class - May 1940

(Margaret (Warren) Shufeldt photo)

 

 

Kinmundy Grade School; Primary grades; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL - Mrs. Annie Young, teacher; circa 1939-1940

(Most graduated in 1950, 1951, 1952)

Back row: Billie Sadler, Marion Shaffer, Billie Wright;  Kenneth Carpenter, Merle Garrell/Farrell, Charles White, Richard “Dick” Garden

Middle row: Valida Cl_____ - Conant, Eugene Garrell/Farrell, Luther Mal, Homer Wallace Hults, Betty Vanscyoc, Loretta Hoyt, Shirley Prov____,

                     Joann (Jezek) Walsh, Robert Hanna

Front row: Dorothy White, James Burge, Xon Hanna, Dan___ Ray Butler, Herbert Hall, Herman Hoyt, Bonnie Jones, Joyce (McHatton) Williams,

                    Donnie Fi_____, __________

 

 

Kinmundy Grade School; Grade 5 & 6; 1940-1941; Margaret (Warren) Shufeldt - teacher

Back Row: Zola (Robnett) Blomberg, Lillie (Olden) Mangner, Sue "Sudie" (Sadler) Vugteveen, Harriet (Allen) Neal, Betty Boughers,

    ____________,  Betty (Hammer) Frakes, Ruth (Wright) Basic, Peggy (Jackson) Booth, James Hall, Raymond Shaffer

Middle Row: Miss Margaret Warren – teacher, Charles Bassett, John Garden, Bobby Hoyt, John Jezek, Doug Hall, Joe Bargh,

    Jean (Alexander) Bucka, Arlene (Zimmer) Roberts, ____________, Leroy Hall, John Boughers

Front Row: Junior Diss, Lester Vandeveer, Betty (Geiler) Jenkins, Barbara (Murphy) Squibb, Billy Parrish, Robert Bailey,

   Mary Lou (Followell) Bell, Marilyn (Miller) Maulding Kaytor, Charles Garden

 

 

Kinmundy School; maybe 3rd and 4th grades; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL – Annie Young, teacher - 1941-1942 (maybe)

Don Cheatum possibly in picture.

Back row: 1) Mrs. Annie Young - teacher, 2) Harriet Allen, 3)____________, 4)_____________, 5)_______________, 6) Shirley (Gray) Gregory, 7)______________

Middle row:  1) ____________, 2) _____________, 3)____________, 4)_____________, 5)_______________, 6)______________, 7)______________, 8)_____________

Front row: 1) ____________, 2) Darrell Diss, 3)____________, 4)_____ Hoyt, 5)_______________, 6)______________, 7)______________, 8)______________

 

 

Kinmundy School; 1941-1942

Kinmundy School; 7th and 8th grades; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL – 1941-1942

Back row: Alice French Lewin (teacher), Zola (Robnett) Blomberg, George Hall, _____________, ________ Diss, ____________, ____________,

     Helen (Brimberry) Patterson Williams, Bernice Moeller, _________________, Eileen (Eagan) Garrett, Naomi (Simmons) Sullivan

Middle row: ____________, Lillie (Olden) Mangner, Coralee Garner, Marie (Bailey) Johnson, Henry Spencer, Joann (Alexander) Heffernan,

     _____________,  Bill Lyons, Betty (Geiler) Jenkins, Mona (West) Watson, Elwyn Cheatum, ____________________, Robert Hoyt

Front row: _____________, Arlene (Zimmer) Roberts, _______________, Marilyn (Miller) Maulding Kaytor, Lester Vandeveer, Richard Bailey,

   Marian Johnson, ________ Diss, Bob Bailey, Eileen (Eagan) Garrett, Charles Bassett, Mary Lou (Followell) Bell

 

 

Kinmundy School; 1st and 2nd grades; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL – 1942-1943

Back: Harley Hayes – Superintendent; Margaret (Wiseheart) Church – teacher; and Rena DaMosso - music teacher

3rd row: Gene Donoho, Patricia “Tish” (Bailey) Sagadine, George Hoyt, Carol (Thoms) Bass, _____________, Evelyn (Feather) Middleton,

           Mr. Norman's son,  ____________, _____________, Joyce (Geiler) Lane Potter, Pansy West, Audrey (Hults) Feather, ________ Leroy Diss

2nd row: ______________, ______________, (?)Dennis Robb, ______________, ______________, _____ Mulvaney, Bonnie (Gray) Wimberly, Jerry Morris,

                ______________, ______________

Front row: Jeanie Shaffer, Smokey Jones, Shirley (Howell) Vasil, Leon Followell, Jim White, Shirley (Followell) McCarty, (?)Johnny Doolen,

               Dorothy (Dunlap) Geiler, _______ Chasteen, Shirley Jasper, Jim McHatton

 

Kinmundy School;  maybe 4th & 5th grades; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL – 1942-1943 - Mrs. Annie Young-teacher

Back row: Miss Rena DaMosso - music teacher, _____________, ____________, Charles White, _______________, Mrs. Annie Young - teacher, Harriett (Allen) Neal,

                 Shirley (Gregory) Gray, _____________, ___________, ____________, ______________, Mr. J. Harley Hayes – Superintendent

Middle row: Virginia (Spencer) Greenwood, Bob Hanna, Darrell Diss, ____________, Lillie (Bailey) Phillips, _____________, ? Millie (Bailey) Bassett ?,

                  ____________, Bill Vallow, ___________, ____________, Marion Shaffer, Glen Johnson

Front row: Zola (Barbee) Colee, Marcelline (Gentry) Ambuehl, Helen (Feather) Smith, _____________, _______________, Dick Hall, _____________, ___________,

                   _____________, ___________, Paul West, ______ Hoyt, Don Cheatum, ___________, ____________

 

 

Kinmundy School; 1942-1943

Kinmundy School; 7th and 8th grades; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL; 1942-1943

Back row: Nora DaMosso, Peggy Jackson, Zola (Robnett) Blomberg, Betty (Hammer) Frakes, Chuck Garden, Mr. Hayes (Supt.), Joe Hall,

     ________ Hall, Betty (Geiler) Jenkins, Mary Lou (Followell) Bell, Jean (Alexander) Buchka, Mrs. Alice (French) Lewin (teacher)

Middle row: Arlene (Zimmer) Roberts, Charles Bassett, Helen (Robnett) Phillips, Joe Bargh, Betty Lee _______, _________________,

    Lillie (Olden) Mangner, John Garden, Marilyn (Miller) Maulding Kaytor, John Motch

Front row: Lester Vandeveer, Vernon Jezek, Donald West,  George Hall, Junior Diss, Bill Avery, Bob Bailey, Jack Hoyt, _______________

 

 

1st and 2nd grades; Kinmundy Grade School; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL – 1942-43 (Classes of 1953 & 1954)

Back row: Leon Followell, Gene Donoho, Patricia (Bailey) Sagadine, Helen Hall, Joyce Ann Geiler, Audrey (Hults) Feather, Pansy Mae West,

      Irene Sharp, Bonnie Jane Gray, Julia Phillips

Middle row: Billy Joe White, Leroy Diss, Mary Jane Shaffer, Jimmie Johnson, Jack Boyd, Norman Hayes,

      Marion Rowland, Evelyn (Feather) Middleton, Shirley Ann (Bailey) Miller, Connie Jo (Hoyt) Garrett

Front row: Carol (Thoms) Bass, John Doolen, Leon Diss, Shirley Ann Jasper, James White, Loretta (Diss) Brandt, Shirley Ellen (Followell) McCarty,

      James McHatton, Virginia Vanscyoc, Jerry Morris, Shirley Jean (Howell) Vasil.  (Absent: Franklin Harmon and Carl Jones)

 

 

3rd and 4th grades; Kinmundy Grade School; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL – 1942-43 (Classes of 1951 & 1952)

Back row: Billy Shaffer, Earl Hammer, Loretta Hoyt, Richard Garden, Joe Ellen Harmon, Charles Jones, Wallace Hults,

     Teddy Lee, Garold Chasteen, Nadien Harmon, Beverly (Hanna) Minor Johnson Teal

Middle row: Eugene Bailey, James Burge, Bonnie Jones, Herbert Hall, Glen Vanscyoc, Glenn Doolen, Norma Harmon,

    Joann (Jezek) Walsh, Sue Jackson, Andy Boring

Front row: Jimmie Alexander, Billy Thoms, Alice Marie Hammer, Barbara Sharp, Billy Burge, Xon Hanna,

    Betty Lou (Johnson) Logue, Louise Shaffer, Joyce (McHatton) Williams

 

 

 

5th and 6th grades; Kinmundy Grade School; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL – 1942-43 (Classes of 1949 & 1950)

Back row: Mildred "Millie" (Bailey) Bassett, Wallace Barbee, Richard Sigrist, Marion Shaffer, Lois Marten, Glen Johnson, Richard Hall,

    Dale Smith, Leon Sigrist, Darrell Diss, Robert Hanna, Don Cheatum

Middle row: Lois Shaffer, Betty Vanscyoc, Pauline (Jones) Chapman, Lillie (Bailey) Phillips, Grace Bear, Shirley Gray,

   Harriet (Allen) Neal, Bill Vallow, Charles White, Bob Geiler

Front row: Zola (Barbee) Colee, Paul West, Helen (Feather) Smith, June Lee, Paul Lane, Virginia (Spencer) Greenwood,

   Hilda Parrish, Kenneth Jasper, Marcelline (Gentry) Ambuehl

 

 

7th and 8th grades; Kinmundy Grade School; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL – 1942-43 (Classses of 1947 & 1948)

Back row: Betty Jean (Geiler) Jenkins, Zola (Robnett) Blomberg, Betty (Hammer) Frakes, Jim Hall, Charles Garden, Roy Hall, Raymond Shaffer,

    Peggy Jackson, Betty (Lee) Fogle

Middle row: Joe Bargh, John Garden, Vernon Jezek, Richard West, Lester Vandeveer, Billy Avery, John Motch,

    George Hall, Charles Bassett, Mary Ruth Mulvaney, Helen (Robnett) Phillips, Mary Lou (Followell) Bell, Lillie (Olden) Mangner

Front row: Jack Hoyt, Junior Diss, Jean (Alexander) Bucka, Marilyn (Miller) Maulding Kaytor, Arlene (Zimmer) Roberts, Bobby Bailey, Ruie Wilcox, Dora Mulvaney

 

 

Kinmundy Grade School teachers; 1942-1943

 

Kinmundy Grade School teachers for 1st thru 8th grades; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL – 1942-43

 Alice French, Annie Young, Hester Heaton, Margaret Church

 

 

1st  and 2nd grades; Kinmundy Grade School; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL – Mrs. Annie Young, teacher - 1943-44  (Classes 1954 & 1955)

Back row: Mrs. Annie Young - teacher, Gary Kline, Sandra Rowland, Marion Rowland, Keith Diss, Billy Jo White, Jerry Morris,

    Leon Folowell, Gerald Doolen, James White, Sammy Sadler, Bonnie (Gray) Wimberly, Helen Ross, Jerry Robb.

Middle row: Marilyn Allen, Wanda (Garrett) Brasel, Leon Diss, Mary Jane Shaffer, Shirley Howell, Connie (Hoyt) Garrett, Shirley (Bailey) Miller,

    Julia Phillips, Loretta (Diss) Brandt, Jimmie Johnson, Sammy Jones, John Doolen

Front row: Shirley (Followell) McCarty, Juanita Martin, Phyllis Hoyt, Patsy Shaffer, Shirley Jasper, Leroy Diss, Larry Sullens,

    Jimmy McHatton, Billy Boyd, Lester Chasteen, Carl Jones

 

3rd and 4th grades; Kinmundy Grade School; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL - Hester Heaton, teacher – 1943-44 (Classes 1952 & 1953)

Back row: Glenn Doolen, Andrew Boring, Evelyn Lovell, Earl Hammer, Jimmie Sadler, Dennis Robb, Sue Jackson, Norman Hayes, Audrey (Hults) Feather

Middle row: Joyce (Geiler) Lane Potter, Patricia (Bailey) Sagadine, Helen Hall, Alice (Zimmer) Sigrist, Billy Shaffer, Billy Burge, Betty (Johnson) Logue, Wayne Simmons, Louise Shaffer

Front row: Jimmie Alexander, Jackie Boyd, Lela Mae (Doolen) Smith, George Hoyt, Gene Bailey, Carol (Thoms) Bass, Gene Donoho, Billy Thoms

 

 

 

5th and 6th grades; Kinmundy Grade School; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL - Alice Readnour, teacher – 1943-44 (Classes 1950 & 1951)

Back row: Billy ?Sadler, Lois Martin, Charles White, Dick Garden, Marion Shaffer, Darlene Moses, Lillie (Bailey) Phillips,

    Charles Jones, Billy Vallow, Kenneth Jasper, Dick Hall

Middle row: Miss Alice Readnour - teacher , Lois Jean Shaffer, June Lee, Loretta Hoyt, Marcelline (Gentry) Ambuehl,

    Virginia Spencer, Teddy Lee, Wallace Hults, Eugene Gigar, Don Cheatum, Glen Johnson, James Burge

Front row: Paul West, Zola (Barbee) Colee, Joann (Jezek) Walsh, Herbert Hall, Garold Chasteen, Bonnie Jones, Joyce (McHatton) Williams, Xon Hanna

 

 

7th and 8th grades; Kinmundy Grade School; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL – Alice French, teacher - 1943-44 (Classes 1948 & 1949)

Back row: Mervin Cheadle, Peggy Jackson, Betty (Hammer) Frakes, John Garden, Shirley Gray, Harriet (Allen) Neal, Dale Hulsey

Middle row: Miss Alice French, John Motch, Wallace Barbee, Joe Bargh, Billy Avery, George Hall, Millie (Bailey) Bassett, Jean (Alexander) Bucka, Helen (Robnett) Phillips

Front row: Hilda Parrish, Jack Hoyt, Vernon Jezek, Bobby Geiler, Billie Gentry, Darrell Diss, Lindell Moses

 

Kinmundy Grade School teachers – 1st thru 8th grades; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL – 1943-44

 Annie Young, Hester Heaton, Alice Readnour, Alice French

Kinmundy Grade School; 1st and 2nd grade class ; Annie Young - teacher; probably April 1946

  (Kinmundy grade school students in high school graduating classes of 1956 & 1957).  
 Top row: Mrs. Annie Young, Barbara (Howell) Beery, Charles Williams, Kenny Ford, John Johnson, Lester Chasteen,

                Jim Diss, Karen (Jones) Robnett, ___________

Middle row: Barbara (Doolen) Shanafelt, Patsy Shaffer, ___________, Duane Gray, Jimmy Hays, ____ West,

                     Patricia Doolen, Don Thompson, Rich Ford

Front row: Charles Gray, Barbara (Allen) Alexander, Morris Maxey, Doug Hall, Richard "Butch" Boyd, Kenny Hammond,

                  Ruth (Bayliss) Combs, Rex West, Patricia Pruett

 

 

Kinmundy Grade School; 3rd and 4th grade class; Hester Heaton - teacher; April 1946

   (Kinmundy grade school students in high school graduating classes of 1954 & 1955).
Top row: Shirley (Howell) Vasil, Loretta (Diss) Brandt, Connie (Hoyt) Garrett, Sam Jones, Keith Diss, Marilyn Allen, Whitney Hanna,

     Gerald Doolen, Jim Lux, Joyce (Geiler) Lane Potter

Middle row: Hester Heaton - teacher, Bonnie (Gray) Wimberly, Leroy Diss, Mary Jane Shaffer, James White, John Doolen, Shirley (Bailey) Miller,

     David Hanna, Jerry Robb, Leon Followell, Donna Schooley

Front row: Shirley (Jasper) Drewes Smith, Jim McHatton, Bill Boyd, Gary Kline, Larry Sullens, Wanda (Garrett) Brasel, Wes Doolen,

     Everett Hammond, Leon Diss, Carl Jones, Shirley Followell

 

 

 

Kinmundy Grade School; 5th & 6th grade class; Alice Readnour; April 1946

  (Kinmundy grade school students in high school graduating classes of 1952 & 1953).

Back row: 1) Audrey (Hults) Feather, 2) Helen Hall, 3) Leroy Shaffer, 4) Kenny Krutsinger, 5) Louise (Shaffer) Robbins, 6) Glenn Doolen,

    7) Gene Bailey, 8) Norman Hayes (son of principal)

Middle row: 1) Earl Hammer, 2) Sue Jackson, 3) Beverly Hanna, 4) Norma Jean Hayes, 5) ?Eileen (Beard) Malekovic, 6) Alice (Zimmer) Sigrist,

    7) Dennis Robb, 8) Sue (Williams) Swift, 9) Alice Readnour – teacher

Front row: 1) Patricia "Tish" (Bailey) Sagadine, 2) Bill Burge, 3) Dorothy Frances (Dunlap) Geiler, 4) Jack Boyd, 5) DeLoris Dyer,

    6) Bill Thoms, 7) Jim Alexander          (Written on back - "Absent: Lela Mae, Pansy, Billy Shaffer, Carol Thoms)"

 

Kinmundy School; 1946

Kinmundy School; 7th and 8th grade class ; Miss Alice French's (later Mrs. Len Lewin); April 1946

  (Kinmundy grade school students in high school graduating classes of 1950 & 1951).  
 Top row: Billy Beard, Charles Jones, Charles White, Bill Vallow, Dick Garden, Fern (Ford) Bernhardt, Lillie (Bailey) Phillips, Marion Shaffer,

               Darlene Moses, George Lambird, Dick Hall.

Middle row: Miss French, Marcelline (Gentry) Ambuehl, Bonnie Jones, Martha (Hanna) Horner, Virginia (Spencer) Greenwood, Robert Hanna,

              Betty Hammond, Junior Hammond, Herbert Hall, Wallace Hults, Glen Johnson, Loretta Hoyt, Lois Shaffer, Kenneth Jasper, Jimmy Williams.
Front row: James Burge, Xon Hanna, Garold Chasteen, Zola (Barbee) Colee, Joyce (McHatton) Williams, Joann (Jezek) Walsh, Paul West,

              Donny Cheatum                                                                                                                               

 

Kinmundy Grade School; 1st and 2nd grade class (1946-47); Mrs. Annie Young - teacher; April 1947

  (Kinmundy grade school students in high school graduating classes of 1954 & 1955)  
 Top row: Charles Gray, Tommy Hankins, Bennie Sadler, Jimmy Hayes, Eugene Smith, Charles Williams, Barbara Kaye (Hammer) Schneider,

      Jim Diss, Beverly (Phillips) Bouseman, Barbara (Howell) Beery, Barbara (Allen) Alexander, Mary Brimberry

Middle Row: Rex West, Eugene Hankins, Richard Boyd, Denny Geiler, Don Thompson, Morris Maxey, Illamae Hanna, Edith West,

      Sheila Pickle, __________, Paul ________

Front row: Kathleen O'Dell, Keith Schwabe, Louis Maxey, Henry Followell, ___________, Dorothy (Shaffer) Clark, Teddy Trout,

     Jimmy Shaffer, Marilyn (Howell) Ballance, Ruth (Baylis) Combs

 

 

Kinmundy Grade School; 3rd and 4th class (1946-47); Hester Heaton - teacher; April 1947

  (Kinmundy grade school students in high school graduating classes of 1955 & 1956).

Top row: Karen (Jones) Robnett, Larry Smith, Sam Jones, Gerald Doolen, Pat Smith, Whitney Hanna, Keith Diss,

                Marilyn Allen, Gary Kline, Hester Heaton - teacher.

Middle row: Larry Sullens, Wanda (Garrett) Brasel, Rosie West, Leon Diss, Sammy Sadler, Carl Jones, Lester Chasteen, Bill Boyd

Front row: Phyllis Hoyt, John Johnson, Duane Gray, Barbara (Doolen) Shanafelt, Shirley ______, Patsy Shaffer,

                Pat Doolen, Marilyn (O'Dell) Black, Douglas Hall

 

 

Kinmundy Grade School; 5th & 6th grades; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL; Alice Readnour, teacher – 1946-1947 - April 1947

    (Kinmundy grade school students in high school graduating classes of 1953 & 1954).

Back Row: 1)Jane Shaffer, 2) Joyce (Geiler) Lane Potter, 3)________, 4) Audrey (Hults) Feather, 5) Helen (Hall) Nash, 6) Dorothy (Dunlap) Geiler,

    7) Donna (Schooley) Jones, 8) James Sadler, 9) Leroy Shaffer, 10) ________, 11) Dale Perry, 12) Herman Hoyt, 13) ________, 14) Leon "Sonny" Followell
Middle Row: 1) (?)Julie (Phillips) Roger, 2) Shirley (Bailey) Miller, 3) Tish (Bailey) Sagadine, 4) Sue (Williams) Swift, 5) John Doolen, 6) Jack Boyd,

    7) ________,  8) Bill Burge,  9) ________, 10) _________, 11) Gene Donoho, 12) David Hanna, 13) Jim White, 14) Alice Readnour - teacher
Front Row: 1) Jimmy McHatton, 2) Billy Thoms, 3) George Hoyt, 4) Loretta (Diss) Brandt, 5) ________, 6)) Carol (Thoms) Bass,

    7) Shirley (Followell) McCarty, 8) Bonnie (Gray) Wimberly,  9) Shirley (Howell) Vasil, 10) Connie (Hoyt) Garrett, 11) Everett Hammond,

    12) Wesley Doolen, 13) Shirley Jasper, 14) Kent O'Dell

 

 

Kinmundy School; 7th and 8th grades; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL; Alice (French) Lewin, teacher -  1946-1947

    (Kinmundy grade school students in high school graduating classes of 1951 & 1952).

Back row: Alice (French) Lewin - teacher, Mona (Conant) Frakes, Phyllis Hoyt, Earl Hammer, Ron Smith, Dick Garden, Jim Williams,

        Ted Tolliver, Gene Jadwin, Kenneth Jasper, Martha (Hanna) Horner, Joann (Jezek) Walsh, Joyce (McHatton) Williams

Middle Row: Bonnie Jones, _____________, Beverly (Hanna) Hawkey Brasel, Glenn Doolen, Wally Hults, Herb Hall, Billie Burge,

        Xon Hanna, Andy Boring, _________, Gene Bailey

Front Row: Alice (Zimmer) Sigrist, Garland Brimberry, Don Smith, Scott Hanks, Shirley Jean (Howell) Vasil, Lela Mae (Doolen) Smith,

        Zola (Barbee) Colee, Louise Shaffer, Lewis O’Dell, DeLoris Dyer, Jimmie Alexander

 

 

Kinmundy School; 1st and 2nd grades; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL; Annie Young, teacher – Oct. 1947

Back row: Mary Brimberry, Gene Hankins, Denny Geiler, Theo. Brubaker, Edith West, Barbara (Hammer) Schneider,

          Tommie Hankins, Nancy (Smith) Diss, Illamae Hanna, Sheila Pickle, Dorothy Shaffer, Paul Wilkins

Middle Row: Linda (Jenkins) Thompson, Henry Followell, Louis Maxey, Charles Perry, Gary Olden, Nicky Owens, Clifford Allmon,

           Beryl Gray, Teddy Joe Trout, David Lee, Gail Kline, Janette (Brimberry) Carter, Barbara (Gentry) Maxey, Rosalie Garden, Joan Anderson

Front Row: Brenda (Gray) Hanks, Keith Schwabe, Ronnie Doolen, George Everett Brimberry, Joyce Clayton, Kathleen O’Dell, Ann Shaffer,

          Bobby Cole, Marvin Chasteen, Brenda Williams, Gene Lux, Jimmie Shaffer, Patty (Olden) Williams, Marilyn (Howell) Ballance

 

 

Kinmundy School;  Grades 3 & 4; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL; Hester Heaton, teacher – Oct. 1947

Back Row: John Johnson, Don Thompson, Benny or Sam Sadler, Benny or Sam Sadler, Karen (Jones) Robnett, ______ West, Larry or Gene Smith,

                   Charles Williams, Ed Clark, Barbara (Doolen) Shanafelt, Lester Chasteen, Hester Heaton - teacher

Middle Row: Richard "Butch" Boyd, Morris Maxey, Charles Gray, Patsy Doolen, ____________, Don or Ron Smith, Patsy Shaffer,

                    Beverly (Phillips) Bouseman, Larry Morris

Front Row: Ruth (Baylis) Combs, Barbara (Allen) Alexander, Albert Duane Gray, _____ West, Doug Hall, Barbara (Howell) Beery, _____West

 

Kinmundy School;  Grades 5 & 6; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL; Alice Readnour, teacher – Oct. 1947

Back Row: 1)Whitney Hanna, 2)Loretta (Diss) Brandt, 3)Carol (Thoms) Bass, 4)Joyce (Geiler) Lane Potter, 5)Mary Jane Shaffer, 6) Pat Smith, 7)Donna (Schooley) Jones

 8) Leroy Diss, 9)Jerry Robb, 10)Billy Shaffer, 11)_____McClure, 12)David Hanna, 13) John Doolen, 14)Keith Diss, 15)Jim White, 16)Alice Readnour - teacher

Middle Row: 1)Leon Diss, 2) Marylin Allen, 3)Julia Phillips, 4)Gladys (Brimberry) Williams, 5) Shirley (Bailey) Miller, 6)Gerald Doolen, 7)Leon Followell.

 8)Dean ____. 9)Sam Jones, 10)Gary Kline, 11)Larry Sullens, 12)Everett Hammond, 13)Bill Boyd

Front Row: 1)Phyllis (Hoyt) Jackson, 2)Shirley (Jasper) Drewes Smith, 3)Shirley Smith, 4)Shirley Followell, 5)Connie (Hoyt) Garrett, 6)Shirley Howell,

 7)Bonnie (Gray) Wimberly, 8) Wanda (Garrett) Brasel, 9)Wes Doolen, 10)Jerry Morris, 11)Carl “Smoky” Jones, 12)Jim McHatton

 

Kinmundy School; probably 1st and 2nd grades; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL; Miss Annie Young, teacher – Oct. 1948

Standing behind class - Miss Annie Young
BACK ROW: Barbara (Lane) Ball, Walter West, Harrison Colclasure, Gene Lux, Larry West, Warren Shufeldt, ___________, Jeanette (Brimberry) Carter, Rosalie Garden, Patsy (Beard) McArthur, Gayle Kline, _______, Beryl Gray, Barbara (Gentry) Maxey. 
MIDDLE ROW: John Charlton, __________, __________, Tom Boyd, Pat (Corrie) Harper, Ronnie Doolen, _____Tipsword, __________, Clara (Brasel) Deadmond, Jimmy Shaffer, Donnie Keen, Patty (Olden) Williams.
FRONT ROW:________, Wayne Followell, Charles Veteto, Gene Montgomery, Larry Baylis, Twila Pigg, Vervadene (Slane) Keen, Steve Schoonover.

 

 

Kinmundy School; probably around 3th-4th grades; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL; Miss Hester Heaton, teacher – 1948

Back row: Jim Diss, Ralph Perry, Bill Johnston, ?Ed Clark, Sam Sadler, Charles Williams, Larry Smith, Leroy Cates, Nancy (Beard) Baker, Kenny Bundy, ____________, ___________

Middle row: Donnie Thompson, Marilyn (O'Dell) Black, Patsy Shaffer, Norman Sullivan, Gene Smith, Ben Sadler, Karen (Jones) Robnett, Patricia Wilson, Barbara (Doolen) Shanafelt, Pat Doolen, Larry Morris, Beverly Phillips, Miss Hester Heston - teacher

Front row: Doug Hall, Butch Boyd, Larry Rollinson, John Johnson, Duane Gray, Harold Cates, Lester Chasteen, Leon Perry, ____ Tipsword, Charles Gray, Barbara Albert, Barbara (Howell) Beery, Ruth (Bayliss) Combs

 

 

Kinmundy School; 6th and 7th grades; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL; Alice (French) Lewin, teacher – 1948

Back row: 1) Leroy Diss, 2) John Doolen, 3) ?Carol (Thoms) Bass, 4) Ruth (Tate) Robb Smith, 5)_________, 6) Donna (Schooley) Jones,

7) Pat Smith, 8) ________, 9) _________, 10, Keith Diss, 11)_________ (and Alice French Lewin is standing in very back)

Middle row: 1) Connie (Hoyt) Garrett, 2) Shirley (Bailey) Miller, 3) Shirley (Beard) Ingram Niccum, 4) Julie (Phillips) Ruger,

5) Herbert Leon “Sonny” Followell, 6) Jim White, 7) Gary Kline, 8) Larry Sullens

Front row: 1) Carl “Smoky” Jones, 2) Shirley Jasper, 3) Sam Jones, 4) ________, 5) Leon Diss, 6) Bill Boyd, 7) Jerry Morris

 

 

 

Kinmundy School; 2nd and 3rd grades; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL; Miss Alice Readnour, teacher – 1948-49

Back row: Illamae Hanna, Gary Olden, Larry Sullivan, Jimmie Hays, Nolan Wooden, Lorraine Wilson, Eugene Meyer, Farroll Armstrong,

    Rudy Slane, Barbara (Hammer) Schneider, Edith West, Dorothy (Shaffer) Clark, Billy Dean See, Barbara (Allen) Alexander

Middle row: Ronald Beard, Linda K. (Jenkins) Thompson, Brenda Williams, Paul Wilkins, Teddy Trout, Gary Garrett, Bobby Eagan,

    Denny Geiler, Nancy (Smith) Diss, Joseph _______,  Louis Maxey, David Lee

Front row: Brenda (Gray) Hanks Felter, Larry Rollinson, Keith Schwabe, George Everett Brimberry, Henry Followell, Marilyn (Howell) Ballance,

    Martha Rose, Marvin Chasteen, Ann Shaffer, Kathleen O’Dell, Bobby Cole

 

 

Kinmundy School; 3rd & 4th grades; Kinmundy, Marion Co., IL; Alice Readnour (teacher); probably 1949-50 (graduating classes of 1959 & 1960.)

Back row: 1) Warren Shufeldt, 2) Donnie Keen, 3)?Gene Lux or Gene Montgomery?, 4) Harrison Colclasure, 5)____________,

         6) Garry Garrett, 7) Bob Eagan, 8) Judy (Robb) Donoho, 9) Jim Jones, 10) David Lee, 11) Henry Followell, 12) Gary Ernst

Middle row: 1) Charles "Mike" Pergl, 2) Shirley (See) Geiler, 3) Dale Smith, 4) Pat (Olden) Williams, 5) Ada Brasel,

         6) Jeanette (Brimberry) Carter, 7) Rosalie Garden, 8) ?Nancy Smith?, 9) Barbara (Gentry) Maxey, 10) Linda (Jenkins) Thompson,

        11) Gail (Kline) Clark, 12) Patsy (Beard) McArthur, 13) Clara (Brasel) Deadmond, 14) Miss Readnour - teacher

Front row: 1) Patricia (Adams) Goettsch, 2) George Brimberry, 3) Bobby Cole, 4) Marvin Chasteen, 5) Brenda (Williams) White,

         6) ___________, 7) Ronnie Doolen, 8) Jimmy Shaffer, 9) Ann Shaffer, 10) Brenda (Gray) Hanks, 11) ?Twila Pigg?,

        12) ?Carolyn (Rose) Clark?

 

 

Slide for grade school at Kinmundy School when all of the Kinmundy students attended the big brick school building.

This was built on the back side (west side) of the school building where the first cafeteria was built. 

The playground equipment was later moved to the Grade School building that was built.

 

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