Irene Vanslyke (1920-2012) attended Joplin Junior College from 1938-1940 and earned an Associate’s Degree in Education. The college was a Junior college which was started the year before I went. The first year classes were held in the HS building but the year I started they had bought an old school building which they usedContinue reading “Irene Vanslyke | Joplin Junior College”
Tag Archives: 1930s
George Akin Vanslyke | Farmer
George Akin Vanslyke (1887-1967) was a farmer in Newton County, Missouri. He owned 80 acres of land near Indian Creek in Benton Township. Granby RR was our mailing address but the farm was 15 miles or so from Granby and only five plus to Stella where my family traded and where we went to churchContinue reading “George Akin Vanslyke | Farmer”
Ella Crookham | Newtownia Homemakers
Mrs. William Relf was a member of the Newtownia Homemakers Club, joining in 1934 when she moved to Missouri from Kansas.
Finding the Yellow Bricks 