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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock !>ifwn Staff I nter
If motherhood is measured by the bestowing of love, honor and gratitude, then Mary Botts Quaintance is
to hundreds and hundreds of Rappahannock children.
Chosen 1979 Woman of the Year by the Rappahannock News, Mrs. Quaintance has led uncountable numbers of youngsters towards educational goals and respect for others during her 48 years in the county’s public school system.
As first teacher, then principal of the neighborhood school in Sperryville and finally as principal of the county’s consolidated elementary school, Mary Botts Quaintance set an example of deportment for her charges. She could say "Do as I do," not “Do as I say" to the students who looked up to her as a model.
Born September 10, 1906, in Rappahannock County, she was the daughter of D. Lyle Miller and Elizabeth Strother Miller and grew up on the farm'in Gid Brown Hollow where Mrs. D. Lyle Miller. Jr. currently lives?
Mary Botts attended college at Farmville and Madison and went on to teach in Arlington before she returned to Rappahannock. She began working with children here in 1929, the year before she married Dike Quaintance. According to Mrs. H. B. Winfrey, her assistant principal at Sperryville, Mrs. Quaintance was a teaching
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