Curryville's Students

Our Curryville tour now has us at the two-room school house. The school house (shown right) is directly across the road from the church. That building is now a community room owned by the church. The original blackboards, doors and wood paneling are still there. Sunday School classes and many events are held there. Local ladies gather on Tuesdays to make quilts, stitch by stitch with loving hands.

Robert (Bobbie) Ritchey and I were the only ones in the first and second grades. When I told people of this, my husband would jokingly chime in with “Their teacher said, if you two don’t behave yours...