VINITA—Services for Mrs. Janana Ballard Lamar, 81, pioneer
school teacher, who died Monday in her home in Bernice, will
be at 2:30 p.m. Friday in the Baptist church, Bernice.
Burial will be in the Ballard cemetery near Bernice.
Mrs. Lamar, born and reared in Bernice, had taught school
for 58 years.
She received her degree at Texas Tech, Lubbock, Texas, and
began teaching at the age of 17. She retired at 75.
She taught at the old Cherokee Female Seminary and
Northeastern State college and in the elementary grades, all
in Tahlequah; the Bernice highschool and rural schools in
Ottawa and Delaware counties.
Mrs. Lamar was the widow of Rev. Jessie Lamar, a Methodist
minister, who died in 1927. Survivors include two sisters,
Mrs. Harold Bunch, Bernice, and Mrs. Ruth Fleming, Adair.
From
The Oklahoma, 5/31/1956
Donated by:
Emily Jordan
