Former Local Teacher Dies
Martinsville friends have received word of the death of Hazel Mildred Fitzgerald, the former Miss Mildred Shideler, who was teacher of girls physical education in Martinsville High School in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
Mrs. Fitzgerald, who was dean of girls and assistant principal of Waukegan High School in Waukegan, Ill., died Jan. 23 in the hospital in Lake Forest, Ill., after an illness of several months. Funeral services took place Jan. 26 in Valparaiso, her former home, while on Jan. 28 a memorial service took place in the First United Methodist Church in Waukegan. The memorial service was arranged by the pastor, superintendent of Waukegan High School and a member of the high school staff. Burial took place in Graceland Cemetery at Valparaiso.
Born in Valparaiso in 1915, she was graduated from Valparaiso High School and from Indiana University before coming to Martinsville to teach for three years. She taught in Peru for a number of years before taking leave to obtain her master's degree when she changed from physical education to guidance. She was dean of girls at Elkhart High School and taught in Chesterton before going to Waukegan. Associates commented that she had made young people her life's job. At Waukegan she worked especially with freshman and sophomore girls and worked through the day before she entered a Waukegan hospital on Oct. 30. She underwent surgery in late November and underwent a period of improvement for a short time but was taken to the Lake Forest hospital in mid-December.
She was a member of the National Education Association, the United Methodist Church, Phi Mu and Tri Kappa sororities, Suburban Women Deans and Counselors, Illinois Association of Women Deans and Counselors and the Lake County Industrial Management Club.
She is survived by her mother, Mrs. S. E. Shideler of the Whispering Pines Nursing Home in Valparaiso, and a sister, Mrs. Edna Crocker of Fort Wayne. Her husband, Cornelius Fitzgerald, died in 1964.
--The Reporter-Times
(Martinsville, IN), Fri., Mar. 26, 1971, Pg. 12
Martinsville friends have received word of the death of Hazel Mildred Fitzgerald, the former Miss Mildred Shideler, who was teacher of girls physical education in Martinsville High School in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
Mrs. Fitzgerald, who was dean of girls and assistant principal of Waukegan High School in Waukegan, Ill., died Jan. 23 in the hospital in Lake Forest, Ill., after an illness of several months. Funeral services took place Jan. 26 in Valparaiso, her former home, while on Jan. 28 a memorial service took place in the First United Methodist Church in Waukegan. The memorial service was arranged by the pastor, superintendent of Waukegan High School and a member of the high school staff. Burial took place in Graceland Cemetery at Valparaiso.
Born in Valparaiso in 1915, she was graduated from Valparaiso High School and from Indiana University before coming to Martinsville to teach for three years. She taught in Peru for a number of years before taking leave to obtain her master's degree when she changed from physical education to guidance. She was dean of girls at Elkhart High School and taught in Chesterton before going to Waukegan. Associates commented that she had made young people her life's job. At Waukegan she worked especially with freshman and sophomore girls and worked through the day before she entered a Waukegan hospital on Oct. 30. She underwent surgery in late November and underwent a period of improvement for a short time but was taken to the Lake Forest hospital in mid-December.
She was a member of the National Education Association, the United Methodist Church, Phi Mu and Tri Kappa sororities, Suburban Women Deans and Counselors, Illinois Association of Women Deans and Counselors and the Lake County Industrial Management Club.
She is survived by her mother, Mrs. S. E. Shideler of the Whispering Pines Nursing Home in Valparaiso, and a sister, Mrs. Edna Crocker of Fort Wayne. Her husband, Cornelius Fitzgerald, died in 1964.
--The Reporter-Times
(Martinsville, IN), Fri., Mar. 26, 1971, Pg. 12
Former Local Teacher Dies
Martinsville friends have received word of the death of Hazel Mildred Fitzgerald, the former Miss Mildred Shideler, who was teacher of girls physical education in Martinsville High School in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
Mrs. Fitzgerald, who was dean of girls and assistant principal of Waukegan High School in Waukegan, Ill., died Jan. 23 in the hospital in Lake Forest, Ill., after an illness of several months. Funeral services took place Jan. 26 in Valparaiso, her former home, while on Jan. 28 a memorial service took place in the First United Methodist Church in Waukegan. The memorial service was arranged by the pastor, superintendent of Waukegan High School and a member of the high school staff. Burial took place in Graceland Cemetery at Valparaiso.
Born in Valparaiso in 1915, she was graduated from Valparaiso High School and from Indiana University before coming to Martinsville to teach for three years. She taught in Peru for a number of years before taking leave to obtain her master's degree when she changed from physical education to guidance. She was dean of girls at Elkhart High School and taught in Chesterton before going to Waukegan. Associates commented that she had made young people her life's job. At Waukegan she worked especially with freshman and sophomore girls and worked through the day before she entered a Waukegan hospital on Oct. 30. She underwent surgery in late November and underwent a period of improvement for a short time but was taken to the Lake Forest hospital in mid-December.
She was a member of the National Education Association, the United Methodist Church, Phi Mu and Tri Kappa sororities, Suburban Women Deans and Counselors, Illinois Association of Women Deans and Counselors and the Lake County Industrial Management Club.
She is survived by her mother, Mrs. S. E. Shideler of the Whispering Pines Nursing Home in Valparaiso, and a sister, Mrs. Edna Crocker of Fort Wayne. Her husband, Cornelius Fitzgerald, died in 1964.
--The Reporter-Times
(Martinsville, IN), Fri., Mar. 26, 1971, Pg. 12
Martinsville friends have received word of the death of Hazel Mildred Fitzgerald, the former Miss Mildred Shideler, who was teacher of girls physical education in Martinsville High School in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
Mrs. Fitzgerald, who was dean of girls and assistant principal of Waukegan High School in Waukegan, Ill., died Jan. 23 in the hospital in Lake Forest, Ill., after an illness of several months. Funeral services took place Jan. 26 in Valparaiso, her former home, while on Jan. 28 a memorial service took place in the First United Methodist Church in Waukegan. The memorial service was arranged by the pastor, superintendent of Waukegan High School and a member of the high school staff. Burial took place in Graceland Cemetery at Valparaiso.
Born in Valparaiso in 1915, she was graduated from Valparaiso High School and from Indiana University before coming to Martinsville to teach for three years. She taught in Peru for a number of years before taking leave to obtain her master's degree when she changed from physical education to guidance. She was dean of girls at Elkhart High School and taught in Chesterton before going to Waukegan. Associates commented that she had made young people her life's job. At Waukegan she worked especially with freshman and sophomore girls and worked through the day before she entered a Waukegan hospital on Oct. 30. She underwent surgery in late November and underwent a period of improvement for a short time but was taken to the Lake Forest hospital in mid-December.
She was a member of the National Education Association, the United Methodist Church, Phi Mu and Tri Kappa sororities, Suburban Women Deans and Counselors, Illinois Association of Women Deans and Counselors and the Lake County Industrial Management Club.
She is survived by her mother, Mrs. S. E. Shideler of the Whispering Pines Nursing Home in Valparaiso, and a sister, Mrs. Edna Crocker of Fort Wayne. Her husband, Cornelius Fitzgerald, died in 1964.
--The Reporter-Times
(Martinsville, IN), Fri., Mar. 26, 1971, Pg. 12
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