TEACHER TEACHER

Floy Mary McClellan was born August 13, 1909, on a farm near DeLeon, Comanche County, Texas, the only child of Joseph Lee and Dorothy McClellan. Her family moved to Arkansas when she was two years old, settling near Newport, in Jackson County. In 1931, she married John Wreford Hipp from Bingen, Arkansas (near Nashville). They had three children, Joe Wreford, Gloria Jean and Charles Rich. Her teaching adventured are chronicled by her own notes and oral histories and the memories of her students and family. Truly, her experience as a teacher was an extended, venturous wandering. She died in El Paso, Texas, October 8, 1992.