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Show Miss S. Louisa Conklin Honored By St. George Women On 77th Birthday Sponsored by a group of West ward neighbor women as hostesses host-esses at the open house honoring her 77th birthday anniversary, nearly 100 neighbors, friends and former pupils of Miss S. Louisa Conklin called at the Presbyterian mission home Monday afternoon to extend birthday anniversary greetings to this long-time resident resi-dent missionary, whose kindly life has endeared her to so many. Light refreshments were served. Born at Cole Springs, Long Island, Is-land, March 1st, 1865, Miss Conklin Conk-lin was a daughter of Jonathan and Margaret Wilson Conklin, and when she was six weeks old the family moved to Rosalyn, where she received her early schooling, later attending the Normal school at Albany, following school teaching teach-ing for several years. Always she was interested in the activities of her church and in 1901 she accepted ac-cepted a position as a mission teacher among the natives of Chacon; Cha-con; in northern New Mexico, where she remained for three and one half years. From there she returned to Roselyn for a 'visit before going to Havana, Cuba, where she taught native" children of that mission mis-sion for four years, before returning re-turning home to spend 18 months with her family. From there she went to Ganardo, Arizona, where she taught in a Navajo Indian mission school for three years. This varied experience with native na-tive peoples has given her a great sympathy with human beings and this is reflected in her 29 years of residence in St. George, where she came January 18, 1913, devoting de-voting her time to her religious duties and kindergarten teaching, with but few furloughs during that period. Her mother died while she was in Havana, in 1907, and since that time she has visited her former home for brief periods. Conscientious Consci-entious in her work with little children, she has given many then-first then-first lessons in being cooperative and social minded, and has taught them many Biblical and other history his-tory stories that will be of value in their lives. |