What else would I want to grow up to be—but a rural country school teacher!!  My earliest recollections (at 3 – 4 years old) were of my 4 “big” sisters coming home on a weekend to our farm home in southwest Webster county.  How the house shook with laughter and merriment as each one shared their week teaching at their school with each other and decided which clothes they would exchange so their pupils would think they had a large wardrobe!!  Oldest sis, Irma, the driver of the Model A Ford, picked up Friday evening the 3 others scattered in Webster and Franklin counties where they were boarding during the week.  Two in the rumble seat!!  The Noble sisters had graduated from Red Cloud High School—Irma,1933: Velma, 1934; Verdell, 1935; and Winnie,1936.  And like our mother who graduated from Red Cloud High in 1913, they had taken Normal Training and then began teaching in one room schools.  Mother, who instilled a love for teaching into her girls, only taught 1 year  before she was married, then began her family—four girls,  2 boys and then 10 years later I was born in 1933!!  The best teacher I ever had was my first teacher—and she was my sister, Velma!  What a good start she got me off to!  There were only 3 of us pupils at District #69 that year!  District #69 was where my father and his siblings attended in the 1890’s and then all six of my siblings were there first through 8th grade.