July 18th………..“DID YOU HAVE A GOOD EXPERIENCE IN YOUR FIRST GRADE YEAR OF SCHOOL”? WHY? AND WHO WAS YOUR TEACHER IN THAT FIRST FULL YEAR OF GRADE SCHOOL EDUCATION”??
POEM – “Back In The Year”. Created by N. Elliott Noorlun. A tribute to my loving First Grade Teacher, Mrs. Loretta Wiehr.
Back in the year, of ’61, When I was a tiny, Farmer’s son,
I reveled in the joys, Within First Grade, With my beautiful teacher, I had it made!
All it took was her smile, To make my day, To repay her I’d try, In every way,
Elliott (on right) had the thrill of reconnecting with Mrs. Wiehr in 2005 at the Farming Of Yesteryear Threshing Festival near his hometown of Kiester, Minnesota.
To work hard and learn, Be obedient and kind, For in this dear lady, I truly did find,
Inspiration to relish, This experience called school, Where love excelled, And joy was the rule.
Dear Loretta Wiehr is celebrating her 90th birthday in July of 2019.
I may be only one oat seed in a field of millions, yet I have a story to share of beginnings on our beloved farm in southern Minnesota and beyond to life as I've seen it to this point. Famous? No. Gifted? Unlikely. Yet, I want to leave a legacy to my children and grandchildren of who this gentle Norwegian man was. My happy times, sad times, successes and failures. Someday, those who are tiny now, will have this volume to come to and get to know this Norwegian Farmer's Son.
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Mrs. Wiehr was was my first grade teacher. We were her first class at Kiester in 1955.
Awwww, that is SO precious, Eileen!!! Thanks so much for sharing here!! I was curious as to her first year of teaching there at Kiester since my “Rambler” yearbooks only go back to 1958 and there’s a gap between there and my 1953 “Rambler”. Yes, Loretta was SO special to me!! Sadly, she was slipping into Alzheimer’s and her family moved her to be closer to them in Canton, North Carolina in a nursing facility. It was there she contracted pneumonia and passed the other evening. She had just turned 94 at her last birthday this past July. Sure loved that dear lady! I was so touched that she STILL remembered me in her Alzheimer’s and called me her “boyfriend”. ;o) Blessings to you, my friend, for sharing here!! >
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Mrs. Wiehr was was my first grade teacher. We were her first class at Kiester in 1955.
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Awwww, that is SO precious, Eileen!!! Thanks so much for sharing here!! I was curious as to her first year of teaching there at Kiester since my “Rambler” yearbooks only go back to 1958 and there’s a gap between there and my 1953 “Rambler”. Yes, Loretta was SO special to me!! Sadly, she was slipping into Alzheimer’s and her family moved her to be closer to them in Canton, North Carolina in a nursing facility. It was there she contracted pneumonia and passed the other evening. She had just turned 94 at her last birthday this past July. Sure loved that dear lady! I was so touched that she STILL remembered me in her Alzheimer’s and called me her “boyfriend”. ;o) Blessings to you, my friend, for sharing here!! >
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