Special thanks to Leslie Wright Bagwell an Emmet County native, now living in Florida for the pictures, and names.
This is 1909 or 1910. School District No. 4 Emmet County MI
Located in Oden, the building is still there, now the Community building
on Luce St. The numbers on the picture correspond to the names below.
1. Dewey Pope 2. Darwin Wren 3. Joe Shaw 4. Ralph Engle 5. Lorraine Pope
6. Ira G. Hart 7. Norman Pope 8. Mary Wachter 9. Gladys Cleveland 10. Ethel Overley
11. Vernon Lyle 12. Marsten Croff 13. Marion Wren 14. Nettie Duncan
15. Richard Hayes, teacher 16. Nellie Woodruff 17. Jennie Wren 18. Leila Cleveland
19. Naomi Holmes 20. Luella June 21. Gertrude Huey 22. Ted Wren 23. Rudolph Luce
24. Jake Overley 25. Roland Ball 26. Clyde Pope 27. Clarence Engle 28. Effie Pope
29. Thora Ball 30. Zeilda Overley 31. Genevieve Huey 32. Majeska Woodruff
33. Vera Hayes 34. Alice Wachter 35. Mildred Wren 36. Millard Ball
Oden School c 1913
Dewey Pope, Gertrude Huey, Majeska Woodruff, Blanch Whitney, Luella June,
Naomi Holmes, Rudolph Luce, Zeldia Overley, Dayrl Kirsh, Mildred Wren
Clarence Engle, John Whitney, Marcellus Wren, Harold Ruggles, Frank Carlson
Oden School c. 1914, 8th Grade Graduation
standing l-r
Blanch Whitney, teacher, Frank Carlson, Majeska Woodruff,
Wayne Whitney, Clarence Engle
seated l-r
Mildred Wren, ?, Gertrude Huey, Luella June
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