Title

District 31 School Students

Creation Date

1947

Description

School Students. B/W photo of District 31 School students in Brighton Township in 1947. The original description in PastPerfect reads as follows: "Students are in front - Mary Lee Clobes, Louise Jutz, Roger Altman, Eugene Jutz. And without known order - Beverly Olson, Howard Ashenburner, Dennis Nelson, Kathy Anderson, Eddie Jutz, Arden Olson, Joyce Havelmeir, Shirley Weisensel, Shirley Ashenburner, Arlene Geiseke, ? Weisensel, Mary Jutz, Lowell Geiseke, teacher, Mabel (Kuehn) Nelson." Mabel Kuehn grew up in Sibley Co. just across the New Sweden Township border, and as a girl played with a friend in the cabin obtained by the Historical Society in 2007. She taught in the Blakely School near Belle Plaine (1938-40), in Nicollet County District 9 Brighton Township (1940-44), and District 31 Belgrade Township (1945-47), as well as in Rush River (1944-45). She married Evan Nelson on July 7, 1946 and lived in a farm in Bernadotte Township. Evan died in 1999. Mabel moved to live in Lafayette in her later years.