Mary Elizabeth Garrison

Created: Monday, January 21, 2013 1:15 a.m. CDT

MOUNT MORRIS – Mary Elizabeth Garrison, 95, of Mount Morris, died Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, at Pinecrest Manor in Mount Morris.

She was born May 15, 1917, at her parents’ farm in Pine Creek Township near Oregon, the daughter of Samuel Jacob and Anna Rebecca (Miller) Hanes.

She attended Northern Illinois State Teachers College and National College of Education in Chicago, earning her Bachelor of Education degree in 1964. She taught in several rural one-room schools then in Polo elementary schools for a total of 27 years.

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