Jean Wobbe-burns:  

substitute teacher. She taught at the small country schools including Oak Grove, Griffin,Creek, Jacsonville, Howard and much to my dismay, at Lone Pine School across the street from our house where I was going to school. Fortunately most of the Lone Pine School teachers were never ill. She earned an emergency two year teaching credential at the college in Greeley long before I was born. In Pueblo she taught first grade, married my father, who immediately took her far away from her relatives to Oregon. She was determined to complete two more years of college so that she could have a BS degree,and a standard Oregon Teaching Credential. In 1948 when I was in the 1st grade at Washington she was teaching 1st grade in Central Point all day, she started attending SOC. That meant that she was commuting from our house in Medford to Central Point, teaching all day, then commuting to Ashland, finally returning home in the middle of the night after I was asleep. For the very first time in my life I had a baby-siter, After I told Mom that the 16 year old male baby-sitter was attempting to molest me, she quit college. She quit her job in Central Point but became a sustitute teacher. In 1952 we moved to the other side of Medford across the street from Lone Pine School. Dad didn't want Mom leaving the house so he belittled her, and made her buy the car from him, the insurance,the gas and her clothes. She opened her own checking account,invested and prospered. In 1954, she began attending summer school at Soc. Dad was really about that, but that didn't stop her. She went until 1960 when she graduated with her degree and credential, and I graduated from MSH. She took a job in Gold Beach and paid my fees for the next four years until I graduated. She took my sister with her, leaving Dad and my brother Larry to fend for themselves. She returned home and established the first Lone Pine School library. She will always be my hero and my inspiratiion.