Alice Persons
| Date of Interment or Death | 03/03/1960 |
|---|---|
| Location | Old Fairview |
| Section | D |
| Block-Lot-Grave | 6-7-6 |
Obituary
Miss Persons Funeral Sunday In Wahpeton
Miss Alice Persons, 79, music instructor at Wahpeton Public schools for many years, died Thursday morning at St. Francis hospital where she had been a patient since February 6. She had been in failing health for several months.
The funeral will be Sunday at 2:30 p.m. in Foss Methodist church here with Rev. B. B. Curtis officiating and Schmitt-Poulton Funeral Home handling arrangements. Interment will be in Fairview Cemetery. Visitation will be at Schmitt-Poulton Funeral Home Saturday afternoon and evening, and at the church one hour, before the service. Memorials should be to the Foss Methodist church. The church choir which she directed for more than 40 years will sing at the funeral service.
She was born Oct. 2, 1880, in Boston, Mass., the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Persons. She attended public schools in Cambridge, Mass., and completed her college work at the New England Conservatory of Music.
She taught public music in New England for several years before coming to Wahpeton. She worked at the library here prior to accepting the position of music instructor in the school where she taught for 22 years.
Under her direction music students at the local school won top honors in state and regional contests and today many of her former students participate in musical groups throughout the state and country.
In 1920 she started directing a choral club of men and women interested in singing.
Miss Persons was the first director of the Richland County Chorus and had been a director of the Foss Methodist church Choir for 41 years.
For 40 years, Miss Persons was an active member of the Leach Public Library board, serving many of those years as secretary. After retiring from teaching in 1945, she served as head librarian for four years.
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Location
Old Fairview is located on the southern half of the cemetery grounds.