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Bowne Township Historical Commission
Bowne Twp., Kent Co., Michigan

Bowne Twp. School History

There were eight old one-room schoolhouses in Bowne Twp., Kent Co., Michigan. The names of the schools are Bowne Center (renovated), Curley, McVean, Logan, Harris Creek, Star, Lowe and Stone. Now you can search for names of teachers and students who attended these schools from 1903 - 1925.

The recently renovated Bowne Center School contains historical information about the eight one-room schoolhouses in Bowne Township. There are photos of school classes and lists of known teachers. There is a large book collection, and the schoolhouse is set up like an actual one-room schoolhouse. The schoolhouse is open to visitors on the second Saturday during the months of June - September from 2:00 - 4:00. It is open other times by appointment.

Bowne Center Teachers

  • Alice Porritt

  • Sara Clinton

  • Pat Howlett

  • Eleanor Porritt (1911, 1912)

  • Pearl Colby (1907, 1908)

  • Olive Loomis (1918)

  • George Houghton

  • Lucille/Jilia Parkill

  • Gladys Johnson Pardee

  • Ruth Headworth

  • Don Utter

  • Dorothy Stahl

  • Lucille Johnson (1925)

  • Vernice Benson

  • Flossie Curtis

  • Elsa Herman

  • Olive Nash (1904,1905)

  • Bessie Benedict (1910)

Logan School Teachers

  • Miss Pender

  • Sarah Clinton

  • Esther Johnson

  • Lucille Shantz

  • Alberta Kauffman

  • Addie Dalstra ('51-'52)

  • Wilbur Pardee

  • Beulah Hayward

  • Lucille Johnson

  • Vere Carter

  • Laura Lowe

  • Viola Lite ('51)

  • Miss Kilmartin

  • Mrs. Roth

  • Zona Postma

  • Pauline Porritt

  • Edward Woods

  • Eleanor Miller

  • Hattie Bouma

Harris Creek Teachers

  • Sarah Clinton

  • Gretchen Morgan

  • Amy Yeiter Finkbeiner

  • Mary Burns McDonald

  • Ruth Headworth

  • Mary Sinclair

  • Dorothy Snyder Braum

  • Nora Sheehan

  • Aura Welton

  • Josephine Griffin

  • Bertha Lacey

  • N. C. Thomas

  • Gretchen Morgan

  • Oscar Shear

  • Eleanor Miller Frey

  • Lucy Procter

Lowe Teachers

  • Ruth Headworth

  • Bertha Lacey

  • Audie Yeiter

  • Thurzie Thompson

  • Lorriane Dygert

  • Hilda Andres

  • Betty Roth

  • Barbara Bird

  • Dorothy Smith

  • Mary Curley

  • Mary McDonald

  • Pauline Watts

  • Marian Porritt Yeiter

  • Flossie Curtis

  • Evelyn Fairchild

  • Lillian Cornell

  • Lula Overgy

  • Phyllis Burns

  • William Marshall

Star School Teachers

  • Eleanor McCaul

  • Ruby Willet

  • Eleanor Hayward

  • Vernice Benson

  • Hulda Christiansen

  • Ruth Stutz

  • Irene Schwab Fairchilds

  • Carolyn Jane (Barber) Blough

  • Mrs. Reuben Lee (1906)

  • Loretta Bunker

  • Beulah Hayward

  • Mary Burns

  • Adda Cudhy

  • Nora Hill Klahn

  • Sara A. Peck

  • Lynette Bunker

  • Dorothy Stahl

  • Florence Enright

  • Mary Alexander

  • Claude Scott

  • Herbert Ochampaugh

Curley School Teachers

  • Edna Bauman (1918, 1919)

  • Ethelyn Porritt (1923)

  • Inez Freymuth Colby

  • Earl V. Colby (1903, 1905)

  • Beatrice Thomas Karcher

  • Sadie McCulla

  • Pauline Whitfield

  • Irene Richard Fairchild

  • Mrs. Jessup

  • Wilma Helrigel

  • Curly class photos

Stone School Teachers

  • Nellie Winks

  • Josephine Kilmartin

  • Helen Warner

  • Ruth Timpson

  • Orpha Bunker

  • Florence Brewer

  • Earl V. Colby (1904)

McVean School Teachers

  • Olive E. Nash (1902, 1903)

  • Edna Weitz

  • E. Frank Lee (1917 - 1922)

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