Norma Necora Stevens (1910-1985)

 

Family Links Spouses/Children: 1. Freeman John Rathbun Norma Necora Stevens 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 Born: 27 Jul 1910, Russell, , Manitoba, Canada 1 4 6 7 9 Marriage (1): Freeman John Rathbun on 13 Jun 1943 in Ipswich, Edmunds, South Dakota, United States 1 2 3 Died: 12 Feb 1985, Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States at age 74 1 2 4 6 Buried: 16 Feb 1985, Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States 1 4 10    Cause of her death was Bone Cancer.   General Notes: The Post Register, 1970. From one room to Gale, Teacher recalls memories. A one-room, one-teacher rural school "where I was not only teacher, but janitor and fire-builder and tender," is something Mrs. Norma Rathbun will remember about her first teaching job in 1929. June 6 of this year will mark the 41st year of full time teaching forMrs. Rathbun, who will retire at the end of this term from Clair E. Gale Junior High School. She remembers that she was lucky in those days of the '20's for the job paid $75 a month in a check that was cased at face value and not ata discount as many were in those depression days. Having only two years of schooling behind her at the time, Mrs. Rathbun attended summer school and then went back to college to get a bachelors degree in 1932. "After one more year of rural school teaching, I had the unbelievableluck to be hired as a high school teacher at Ashton, S.D., for all of$1,000 a year," she said. In 1943, she was married to John F. Rathbun and the couple moved to Idaho Falls where, for the first time since she was 5 years old, she did not attend school for the winter, either as student or teacher. In 1946 she began teaching English, history, speech and drama at IonaHigh School. "One of my students there was Norm Stanger, with whom Ihave taught at Gale for years and who will replace me next year as eighth grade history teacher," she said. She taught at Bonneville High School when it was created. One of herstudents there was Steve Holtom, now Eagle Rock Junior High School principal, and another, Harry Groom, is a school psychologist with IdahoFalls School District 91. Mrs. Rathbun said she and her husband will probably make some short trips "in our own neighborhood" to see some of Idaho's historical spots. Her Husband will retire this fall after which the two have made no definite plans.   Noted events in her life were: • Residence, 10 Feb 1920, Ipswich, Edmunds, South Dakota, United States. 7 • Occupation: Teacher, 1 Apr 1930, Ipswich, Edmunds, South Dakota, United States. 11 • Residence, 1 Apr 1930, Ipswich, Edmunds, South Dakota, United States. 11 • Residence, After 1932, Ashton, Spink, South Dakota, United States. 1 • Occupation: Educator, Bef 1975. 1 • Retirement, 1975, Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States. 1 • Religion: Baptist, Bef 1985. 1 • Residence: 1543 Johnson St., Feb 1985, Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States. 12 Norma married Freeman John Rathbun, son of Jesse Adam Rathbun and Tishie Abigail Freeman, on 13 Jun 1943 in Ipswich, Edmunds, South Dakota, United States.1 2 3 (Freeman John Rathbun was born on 26 Apr 1913 in Sedan, Chautauqua, Kansas, United States,2 5 13 died on 10 Oct 1985 in Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States 13 14 15 and was buried on 15 Oct 1985 in Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States 13.)

1 Newspaper Obituary notice for Norma Rathbun (Name: Post Register New Paper, Idaho Falls, Idaho, undated;). Source Medium: Newspaper
Source Quality: copy

2 Newspaper Obituary notice for John F. Rathbun (Name: Undated and un-named newspaper clipping;). Source Medium: Newspaper
Source Quality: Copy of Original

3 South Dakota South Dakota State Board of Health, Division of Vital Statistics, Record of Marriage, 227217, Rathbun-Stevens; digital images "South Dakota Marriages, 1905-1949," Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 14 Oct 2009).

4 Memorial Service Program for Norma N. Rathbun (Name: Memorial Service Record;). Source Medium: Card
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5 Chautauqua Co., Heritage Association, editor, Chautauqua County, Kansas, Volume 1 (Kansas: Chautauqua County, Heritage Association, 1987), Volume 1: 627; Jesse Adam Rathbun was the youngest son of George Marshall and Tamar Ann Rathbun. He was born August 17, 1880, in Chautauqua County. He met and married Tishie Abigail Freeman while she was visiting relativesin Sedan. Tishie was born February 12, 1880, in Grant City, Missouri. Her parents were George and Anna Jane Freeman.
Jesse and Tishie Rathbun lived all their married lives in Sedan. Six children were born to this union. Freeman Earl was born December 6, 1906. Freeman Hylas arrived on October 19, 1908. Rosa Olive was born January 21, 1911, and John Freeman was born April 26, 1913. A baby girl named Pauline was born March 7, 1915, but lived only a few days. Olin Freeman arrived November 29, 1920. All the boys were given their mother's maiden name as part of their names. Earl and Hylas have Freeman for their first names and John and Olin have Freeman for their middle names.
All of the children attended Sedan public schools but soon after quiting school they moved away from Sedan. Earl, John, and Olin served inWorld War II and Hylas worked in a defense plant in Toledo, Oregon. At the close of the war, Earl and John settled in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Olin stayed at home with his mother, but after her death, he and his wife moved to Idaho Falls.
Earl met and married Hope Jackson in Idaho Falls, they had five children, Jesse Earl, Logan John, Paul Wayne (who lived but a few months), Bererly Ann, and Jeannie. Hylas went to New Mexico where he met and married Myrtle Elizabeth Wells of Van Houten, New Mexico. Myrtle was in Albuquerque attending business college at the time they met. They had three children, Mary Jane, Elizabeth Ann, and Daniel DeLancy. Olive married Jake Hilty and they had one daughter, Lois Rae. John married Norma Stevens, a girl he met in South Dakota while he was in the service. Olin married Barbara Osburn, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Osburn of Peru, Kansas, and later moved to Idaho.
The Jesse Rathbun family was very active in the First Baptist Church of Sedan where all of them were members. Jesse worked as a pumper in the oil fields, and a rural mail carrier and ran the village blacksmith, a trade he passed on to his son Hylas. The old blacksmith shop waslocated on the back part of the lot where the Sedan State Bank is now. Jesse was still working as a blacksmith at the time of his death January 20, 1948. Tishie died December 25, 1954. They are both buried in Greenwood
Cemetery in Sedan.

6 Social Security Administration, "Social Secuirty Death Index," database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 18 February 2009), entry for Norma Rathbun, 1985, SS no. 519-28-8599.

7 1920 U.S. census, Edmunds, South Dakota, population schedule, Ipswich, enumeration district (ED) 139, p. 10A, dwelling 26, family 26, Norma Stevens; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 18 February 2009); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T625, roll 1720.

8 South Dakota South Dakota State Board of Health, Division of Vital Statistics, Record of Marriage, 227217, Rathbun-Stevens; digital images "South Dakota Marriage, 1905-1949," Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 14 Oct 2009).

9 "Providence of Manitoba - Detailed View," database, Vital Stats of Manitoba (http://vitalstats.gov.mb.ca/DetailView.php : accessed 24 Dec 2013), Norma Necora Stevens; Ancestry.com.

10 "Find a Grave," database, Find A Grave (www.findagrave.com : accessed 16 Sep 2012), Norma Stevens Rathbun.

11 1930 U.S. census, Edmunds, South Dakota, population schedule, Ipswich, enumeration district (ED) 20, p. 9B, dwelling 217, family 217, Norma Stevens; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 18 February 2009); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T626, roll 2222.

12 Social Security Administration, "Social Secuirty Death Index," database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 18 Feb 2009), entry for Norma Rathbun, 1985.

13 Funeral Program for John F. Rathbun (Name: Funeral Program;). Source Medium: Other
Source Quality: Originial

14 Newspaper Obituary notice for John F. Rathbun (Name: Undated and un-named newspaper clipping;), Died at home. Source Medium: Newspaper
Source Quality: Copy of Original

15 Social Security Administration, "Ancestry.com. Social Security Death Index [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2007. Original data: Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration.," database, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 26 July 2008), entry for John Freeman Rathbun, 1985, SS no. 529-09-5325.