Missouri State University Libraries's video: Ozarks Voices: Mary Tearney September 19 2017

Interview with Mary Tearney by Tom Peters, Dean of Libraries at Missouri State University. Ms. Tearney was a student at Southwest Missouri State College and a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse in Stone County, Missouri, in the mid-20th century. The interview took place on September 19, 2017, in Ms. Tearney’s home in Leawood, Kansas. Topics discussed include growing up as the oldest child near Galena in Stone County; memories of living with grandparents; helping take care of younger siblings; father’s early business ventures and working as a carpenter; family establishing a farm and homestead; family’s production of tomatoes, strawberries, and cucumbers; memories of attending Southwest Missouri State College (Missouri State University); teaching in a one-room schoolhouse in Stone County, Missouri; teaching in Nixa, Missouri; briefly working in Sears in Springfield, Missouri; meeting her husband; marriage and move to Kansas City, Kansas; teaching in Kansas City; moves to Alabama, Arkansas, Virginia, and Illinois; starting a family back in Kansas City