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"It was just such weather as this, only worse, you've heard of the blizzard of 1899; that’s the year I was born. Father sent for the doctor who rode horseback cross country over the fences where the drifts were so high,” said Miss Annie Miller Almond who celebrated her eightieth birthday Monday.
“I told a friend who kept getting my birthday mixed up, just to remember there were two famous people born on February 14, Abe Lincoln and I,” said Miss Almond, who lives in a comfortable old home in the Town of Washington, with a host of warm memories from her fifteen years of teaching in Fairfax County.
“After a lengthy period of ill health, I began teaching in Floris Elementary School. The administration even allowed me to start with a half-day schedule,” she remembered. “Later I taught full time and continued until my retirement in 1964. Worked with some of the finest people in the world there.”
Miss Almond was born in Page County in a tiny community, Munnellsville, about 5 miles south of Lur^y,
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