Elma May (Dickinson) Knowles |
| Posted 2009-01-11 by Judy Wight Branson |
| The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Arizona Wednesday, April 17, 2002 Elma M. Knowles, May 7, 1908 to April 14, 2002. The last of a pioneer Arizona family. Her father, Alfred Dickinson and her mother, Ida May Van Deren Dickinson came to northern Arizona as young children via wagon train. They farmed along Oak Creek and ran cattle on Schnebly Hill where Elma was born. When her brothers, Walter, Ralph, and Don were old enough to go to school, the cattle ranch was sold and they moved to Flagstaff, Ariz. where her brother, Loren, was born and her dad purchased and ran the Pine Hotel. She went to school there and obtained her teaching certificate from Northern Arizona Normal School, now NAU. Her first teaching job was in Duncan, Ariz. She later moved to Globe, Ariz. and taught at the Hill Street School. In 1935 she married E. Ford Knowles and they moved to Yuma, Ariz. where her son and daughter, Ford and Janet, were born. They later moved to Phoenix, Ariz. After her children were raised, she returned to college to renew her teaching certificate and graduated from ASU and returned to teaching. She taught at the Glen Downs School in the Cartwright School District for many years. She will be missed. Visitation will be held 6:00 - 8:00 P.M., Thursday, April 18, 2002 at Whitney & Murphy Arcadia Funeral Home, 4800 E. Indian School Rd., Phoenix. Funeral Service will be held at 1:30 P.M. on Friday, April 19, 2002 at Whitney & Murphy Arcadia Funeral Home. Contributions may be made to Alzheimer's Association, 1028 E. McDowell Rd., Phoenix, Ariz., 85006. |
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