Obituary : Mae Emaline Hardie
Former Jackson Co. Supt. Mae Hardie Dies in Sparta
Miss Mae E. Hardie, 81, former Jackson County Superintendent of Schools, died
Sunday, July 19, at the home of her brother, Frank, in Sparta. Miss Hardie,
since she began her career as a rural teacher in Termpealeau County, served
52 years in the teaching profession in Wisconsin. Before retiring in 1958
she had held positions in teaching rural, elementary, high school, and
college classes, and in administrative work as supervising teacher and county
superintendent in six counties of the state. Following her first position in
Termpealeau County she taught in a rural Jackson County school and became
principal of the Disco Graded School. She later taught in the Blair Grade
School in Wisconsin Rapids High School before returning to Jackson County,
where she was elected to three two-year terms as county superintendent. She
was supervising teacher in Ashland and Brown Counties and spent ten years in
the New Richmond High School training department. She then retired in 1952,
but was drafted into completing a supervising teacher position in Dane
County. While employed there she was elected as Jackson County
Superintendent on a write-in ballot, but retired again in 1958, this time
finally. Miss Hardie was not known as a person to sit and do nothing. During
her lifetime she traveled extensively in Canada, Europe, Mexico, Hawaii, and
in all but a few of the United States. She was a native of North Bend. She
is survived by two brothers, Frank of Sparta and Ray of Taylor. Services
will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the North Bend Presbyterian Church, Rev.
James Johnson officiating, and burial will be in the North Bend Cemetery.
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