| Name |
Olga Marie BURNS |
| Born |
28 Feb 1923 |
Grove, Doddridge Co, WV  [1] |
| Gender |
Female |
| Education |
Lost Creek H.S. (1941), Salem College (1945) [1] |
| Occupation |
teacher [1] |
| Residence |
1948 |
Salem, Harrison Co, WV [2] |
| Died |
20 Jul 2013 |
Bridgeport, Harrison Co, WV [3, 4] |
| Buried |
Green Hill Church Cemetery, near Hettie, Braxton Co, WV |
| Notes |
- Graduated from Lost Creek High School in 1941 and Salem College in 1945 with an A.B. degree in Commerce and Physical Education. At Salem College, she was voted Tigress and the first-ever female Student Body President (1945). Upon graduation she was the first recreation director at the Salem Industrial Home for Girls, and then a business studies and physical education teacher, first at Salem High School and later at Bristol High School and Liberty High School until her retirement in 1983. She helped restore the Salem Garden Club, and was a founder of Lake Floyd Golf Club. In her retirement she also served as a volunteer at United Hospital Center in the surgical waiting room. Orphaned at an early age, Marie was raised by aunts and uncles in her extended family of Methodist ministers, in various parsonages in Harrison County, and by her eldest brother William Reece Burns who brought his siblings back together as a young minister. [1]
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| Person ID |
I90845 |
Doddridge County Roots |
| Last Modified |
27 Apr 2023 |
1923 - 2013 (90 years)
