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MRS. L. J. TURNER of Washington has retired from The Rappahannock County Public School System, where she has been an elementary teacher for a number of years. Her professional career began in 1933 but was interrupted in the 40’s and 50’s for time as a wife, housekeeper and mother. \
Mrs. Turner, nee Miss Jessie Miller Jotfes, was graduated from West Hampton College, Richmond in 1932. She did not immediately begin teaching for a^t the time positions were hot readily available. In March of the following year, Miss .Jones assumed the position, with its responsibilities, of teacher and principal of Slate Mills . School, all four grades.
The school session of 1933-34 found her as principal and teacher in the three grades at Belle Meade School. Mrs. Turner laughingly tells how being principal and teacher also included janitorial duties as well as guidance counseling and first aid.
A HEART condition which resulted in her marriage to Lewis John Turner in 1934 spaced out her career. Mr. Turner was Extension Agent, Agriculture, in Rappahannock at the-time. She took an extended leave while she reared a family of two—a son Lewis John Jr., now a radiologist living at Warrenton, and a daughter, now Mrs. Carolyn Dewhirst of Richmond.
Mrs. Turner resumed her profession in 1956 as teacher in Sperryville Elementary School and when the elementary facilities
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