Mary Umstead

© Enid News and Eagle

04-1988

Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

© Enid News and Eagle

The funeral for Mary Umstead, 106, who died Thursday at a local nursing home, will be at 2 PM Wednesday at Philadelphia Seventh – day Adventist Church with the Rev. Samuel Hutchins officiating. Burial will be in the Enid Cemetery directed by Russworm Funeral Home.

She was born January 12, 1882, in Hudson, Kansas, where she graduated from high school in 1902. She then attended school at State Normal at Emporia, Kansas, and Western University, Kansas City, Kansas, later earning a bachelor of science degree at Langston University.

In 1906, she moved to Indian Territory to teach at Wilburton. She also taught school at McAllister, Booker T. Washington High School in Enid, Hennessy and Sayre, retiring in 1943.

Survivors include a stepson, Lewis J Umstead, and step grandchildren.

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