Mildred suffered the severe loss of her mother at less than 2 years old, and spent much of her time at her maternal grandparents, the Norman and Marian Bentley couple in Alexander...
Her father "E. Francis Crane" was a vocal teacher of the Italian Method, a "voice culture specialist", and had various New York studios throughout the years in Buffalo, Rochester and Binghamton, which resulted in long periods of absence...
Grandfather Norman was also a vocalist, as well as leading bands, and she may have learned from him, as she would frequently sing with him while he played the violin, sometimes in public settings...
She had the unusual distinction of being the only graduate of Alexander High School in June of 1906, but full commencement exercises were yet held...
Mildred enrolled in the Buffalo Normal teacher's college that fall, and became a primary school teacher in Buffalo, and taught for 12 years in the Alexander, Pavilion, Lackawanna, and Buffalo schools.
She made what may have been a fateful trip in July of 1919 to Maryland to get "the cure" for tuberculosis, at the Maryland State Tuberculosis Sanatorium in Hauvers (Sabillasville)...
She was still in the TB sanitarium in January of 1920, and perhaps it worked, as she must have felt well enough to leave, and take a husband a few months later...
And yet, by July of the year, she died at her home in Glyndon, Maryland, never to teach again.
Her poor bereaved grandmother Marian stayed at the Glyndon home with her widowed son-in-law William C. La Mar, and passed a little over 3 years later.
It is hoped past students, upon hearing of Mildred's early demise, thought of her in the most fond of terms, and held the good that she gave them long after.
Her father "E. Francis Crane" was a vocal teacher of the Italian Method, a "voice culture specialist", and had various New York studios throughout the years in Buffalo, Rochester and Binghamton, which resulted in long periods of absence...
Grandfather Norman was also a vocalist, as well as leading bands, and she may have learned from him, as she would frequently sing with him while he played the violin, sometimes in public settings...
She had the unusual distinction of being the only graduate of Alexander High School in June of 1906, but full commencement exercises were yet held...
Mildred enrolled in the Buffalo Normal teacher's college that fall, and became a primary school teacher in Buffalo, and taught for 12 years in the Alexander, Pavilion, Lackawanna, and Buffalo schools.
She made what may have been a fateful trip in July of 1919 to Maryland to get "the cure" for tuberculosis, at the Maryland State Tuberculosis Sanatorium in Hauvers (Sabillasville)...
She was still in the TB sanitarium in January of 1920, and perhaps it worked, as she must have felt well enough to leave, and take a husband a few months later...
And yet, by July of the year, she died at her home in Glyndon, Maryland, never to teach again.
Her poor bereaved grandmother Marian stayed at the Glyndon home with her widowed son-in-law William C. La Mar, and passed a little over 3 years later.
It is hoped past students, upon hearing of Mildred's early demise, thought of her in the most fond of terms, and held the good that she gave them long after.
Mildred suffered the severe loss of her mother at less than 2 years old, and spent much of her time at her maternal grandparents, the Norman and Marian Bentley couple in Alexander...
Her father "E. Francis Crane" was a vocal teacher of the Italian Method, a "voice culture specialist", and had various New York studios throughout the years in Buffalo, Rochester and Binghamton, which resulted in long periods of absence...
Grandfather Norman was also a vocalist, as well as leading bands, and she may have learned from him, as she would frequently sing with him while he played the violin, sometimes in public settings...
She had the unusual distinction of being the only graduate of Alexander High School in June of 1906, but full commencement exercises were yet held...
Mildred enrolled in the Buffalo Normal teacher's college that fall, and became a primary school teacher in Buffalo, and taught for 12 years in the Alexander, Pavilion, Lackawanna, and Buffalo schools.
She made what may have been a fateful trip in July of 1919 to Maryland to get "the cure" for tuberculosis, at the Maryland State Tuberculosis Sanatorium in Hauvers (Sabillasville)...
She was still in the TB sanitarium in January of 1920, and perhaps it worked, as she must have felt well enough to leave, and take a husband a few months later...
And yet, by July of the year, she died at her home in Glyndon, Maryland, never to teach again.
Her poor bereaved grandmother Marian stayed at the Glyndon home with her widowed son-in-law William C. La Mar, and passed a little over 3 years later.
It is hoped past students, upon hearing of Mildred's early demise, thought of her in the most fond of terms, and held the good that she gave them long after.
Her father "E. Francis Crane" was a vocal teacher of the Italian Method, a "voice culture specialist", and had various New York studios throughout the years in Buffalo, Rochester and Binghamton, which resulted in long periods of absence...
Grandfather Norman was also a vocalist, as well as leading bands, and she may have learned from him, as she would frequently sing with him while he played the violin, sometimes in public settings...
She had the unusual distinction of being the only graduate of Alexander High School in June of 1906, but full commencement exercises were yet held...
Mildred enrolled in the Buffalo Normal teacher's college that fall, and became a primary school teacher in Buffalo, and taught for 12 years in the Alexander, Pavilion, Lackawanna, and Buffalo schools.
She made what may have been a fateful trip in July of 1919 to Maryland to get "the cure" for tuberculosis, at the Maryland State Tuberculosis Sanatorium in Hauvers (Sabillasville)...
She was still in the TB sanitarium in January of 1920, and perhaps it worked, as she must have felt well enough to leave, and take a husband a few months later...
And yet, by July of the year, she died at her home in Glyndon, Maryland, never to teach again.
Her poor bereaved grandmother Marian stayed at the Glyndon home with her widowed son-in-law William C. La Mar, and passed a little over 3 years later.
It is hoped past students, upon hearing of Mildred's early demise, thought of her in the most fond of terms, and held the good that she gave them long after.
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