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divorce followed the separation from Otto. Later, she married a man named
Snyder, and they lived together in Port Angeles for quite a while. We used to eat
there on our trips to Port Angeles. Gertie would always bring lots of weenies. She
liked weenies, We had a good time. One day, Snyder fell off the porch and broke
his hip. He was put in the hospital, but did not recover, and he died. Then
Margaret moved to Seattle to live with Arthur.

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SCHOOL

There was a small building just across the road from where Virginia (Hamerquist)
lives, where Gertie went to school when she was a girl. At that time, the teacher
who taught here lived in the same house. Gertie was the only child in school.

However, Margaret Pontine, who was then married, came up on the hill for three
weeks to attend the school. But after that, she got tired and would not come
anymore. … I belive that I was six when I started school. At that time, a teacher by
the name of Rush lived up here on the hill, in a small house on the spot where
Virginia lives. … Before I attended school regular, Rush taught school in one room
in Pontine’s house. Margaret Pontine was then the school director.

… At the end of school term, Rush left. I remember very little about that time

except that, one day, while going down there to school by myself, on the stretch
of road leading up to Pontine’s place, I saw a cow with big horns in the middle of
the road, looking at me. I got scared and ran home. I know Ozella Landriks took
Rush’s place. She lived in the house he vacated. Her sister, Vera, who lived with
her, was younger than Ozella. At this time, Ozella’s brother, Vern, was teaching in
a log school at Pysht. It happened that Vern got drafted for the army, and so at

once, the school at Pontine’s place was discontinued. Beatrice, Jimmy, and Arthur
Pontine, quit school, and Ozella had to haul Lizzie and me and Vera to Pysht.

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