Poetic Obituaries: [Mary B. Honer] was an outstanding

public speaker; winning first prize in public speaking at school, and first prize in the Goshen College Poetry Reading Contest.

Mary attended Goshen College in Goshen, Ind., graduating in 1965 with a BA degree in English. She was hired to teach English at Lowville Academy and taught there through 1968. After several summers and a year of graduate study at Columbia University, she earned an MA degree in English in 1969. She was then hired by Beaver River Central School as an English teacher, and she taught there until her retirement in 1998.

from newzjunky: Mary B. Honer

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