Person ID: I8667782313

Esther Helene Juliane Loose

20 MAR 1902 – 26 OCT 1978

Female

Events

Born: 20 MAR 1902 — Morgan, Redwood, Minnesota, United States 2 sources
Died: 26 OCT 1978 — Greenville, Greenville, South Carolina, United States 2 sources
Buried: Rosehill Cemetery, Minot, Ward, North Dakota, United States 1 source

Married: 5 JAN 1928 — Jamestown, Stutsman, North Dakota, United States

[WinnieLesan.FTW] Esther lived her early years in Morgan, MN, where she started her education. In 1916, her parents moved to Woodworth, ND, where they purchased the S. T. Ferguson farm one mile south of woodworth. She attended college at the Valley City Teache rs College. She started her teaching career in a one room rural school near Woodworth. While teaching there she had to arrive early during the winter months, to start a fire in the stove to warm the school before the students arrived. On some of the co d and snowy days , no students would make it to school. She later taught school in Wishek, ND, untill she married Merritt. After marriage she lived in the following cities in North Dakota, Devils Lake, Minot, Bismarck, Fessenden, Wahpeton, and Fargo. She also lived in Terry MT from 1947 to 1949, before moving back to Minot, ND. After the death of her husband Esther remained in her home in Minot, until 1975, when she took up residence in a nursing home in Jamestown, ND. She later moved to a nursing home near Clemson, SC. While in the nursing home she fell an broke he r hip, and was transfered toa hospital in Greenville, SC, where she passed away.