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Dickens School

School Name: Dickens

District Number: 15, fractional district

Location: Romeo Plank, just north of 29 Mile Road

Year School Was Built: before 1859

Years of Operation: before 1859 to 1952

Grades:

Property History: According to plat maps, a school was located on the property of John Dickens in 1859 and 1875. By 1895, the school was located on property of Nelson Woodman. and in 1910 by W. N. Woodman. In 1916, the school was again listed as being located on property owned by the Woodman family.

Building Architecture:

Current Status: The building now houses the Little Zion Old Regular Baptist Church. The church was established in 1960.

Former Teachers: 1867 Mary Pickle; 1875 Mary Nye; 1880 Miss Basney; 1882 Nellie Garvin, Lexis Macaully, & Miss Grout; 1891 Minnie Atone; 1892 Lucy Ellis; 1893 George McGuill, 1896 Julia Garvin, Olive Nye, Nellie Remington, Jennie May Remington Reynolds, & Lyn Johnson; 1906 Harriet A. Patch (Smith) & William Millar; 1907 Bertha DeGraff, Marcus Smith, & Arthur Downs; 1908 Jennie & Verna Downs; 1909 Mina Hartway Downs; 1911 Eva Van Fleet; 1912 Edith Mills, Ida Cleary, Claude McGregor, & Catherine Kunstman; 1914 Minnie Downs; 1915-16 Marie (Wilfred Churchill) Forest; 1917-18 Jessie Brough; 1918-20 Ellen Kunstman (Apling), Lucy Haughton, Lucille McNevin, & Evelyn Whiting; 1924 Lucy Houghton; 1926-27 Violet Gates; 1927-28 Ruby Miller; 1929-30 Evelyn Gass; 1933-35 Altha Gaedcke; 1935-37 Marie Dresser; 1941-42 Louise Lock; 1942-52 Anna Whiting; 1952-53 Jessie Brough (Kreger)

Former Students: 1867 Julia Garvin; 1914-24 Francis & Mary Brough; Grace Burndt; Lucille & Nelson Clark; Bessie, Clare, Floyd, & Geneviere (Nank?) Clement; Charles, Edward, Eleanore, Henry, & Zottas Casial; Celia DeGroff; Beulah Downs; Elwood (Dorothy Chamberlain), Marsaline, & Ralph Duncan; Clarence, Emma (Schocke), Ervin, & Mabel (Terry) Engle; Elmer, Elsie (Beatham), Fred Jr (Lillian Falk), Herbert, & Laura (Walter Schmidt) Erdman; Alfred, Alice (Dahn), Harry, Lillian (Fred Erdman Jr), & Robert Falk; Marvin Gherke; Deywood & Iva Green; Ervin, Evelyn, Fred, & William Johnston; Albert, Julia (Clyde Hotchkiss), & Martha (Emil Kreuger) Knust; Bessie, Carl, Helen, & Hilda Kreger; Ellen (Apling), Florence (Andrel), Harold, & Katherine (Diener) Kunstman; Anna (Cassidy), Charles, Clara (McArthur), & Margaret (Roland H Adams) Metz; Aneita or Oneda (Braidwood) & Mildred (Kreuger) Miller; Anna, Emma (Weber), Erna, Minnie, & Walter Munchow; Albert, Jane, Leo, Lucille, Matthew, Theda, & Virginia Noker; James Perry; Floyd, Russell (Marie Job), & William (Lucy Gibson) Robertson; ? Schimmer; Arthur & Ernest Spordck; Clarence & Marcus Smith; Eleanor, Francis, & Jean Stewart; Mildred & Vernon Stissebury; Amelia Starkoff; Francis Vick; Edith, Gladys, Harvey, & Mable Welch; Clarence Whiting; Esther & Ruth (Kersten) Winter; Ray Woodman; 1945 graduates Myra (Norman Baade) Hotchkiss; Anna Jurek; Gloria Schultz; 1946 graduates Tom McInnes; Wanda Spilak; 1948 graduates Carol Slotzenback; Clifford Liebler; Loretta Dobrack; Donald & Dougal Nelson

Unknown Years: Sid (Doris) Bourgeois; Bernice (Rudenberg) Carpenter; Harold & Marion Clement; Helen (Warren) Downs; William (Anna Plauman?) Duncan; John & Minnie (Chamberlain) Grader; Clyde Jr, Irene (Walter Bauer), Janet (Richard Vallie), Marian (Frank Pavlik), Robert, & Ruth Ann (Martin Maslar) Hotchkiss; Emma, George, & Louis Knust; Leo Kunstman; Mrs. Otto Kreger; Mrs. Martin Laarman; Elsie Ludman; Marie (Warren Beauchamp) Lloyd; Albert (Alice Ramin), Frank (Anna Plauman?), & Minnie (Vick) Metz; Mrs. Bert Miller; Eli & Francis Miller; Charles E (Irene), Ella (Hilton), & Julia (Singer) Mosher; Arthur Parker; Patti Pavlik?; Edith (Falk) Plauman; May (Pierson) Remington; Nora Robertson; Charles Schleif; Ferdinand, Walter (Laura Erdman), & William Schmidt; Alice (Cavanaugh) Snover; Marvin L (Ella Arndt?) Thorman; Carrie Whiting

Memorable Moments:

Compiled: May 2010
By: T. Goike, C. Firestine, D. & R. Heldt