Embree, Wilma
Biography
Wilma Penfold Embree was born in 1922 on a farm in Cass County. She graduated from Grant High School in 1940 and studied two years at Red Oak Junior College. From 1942 until 1945, she taught rural school, marrying her fiancé Stanley Embree in 1945 when he returned from active duty. They bought a farm near the Embree family, but lived there only two years before moving onto her grandparents’ farm in Adams County. They raised two children. When the children were school age, Wilma Embree resumed teaching. They farmed the 240 acres and additional rented land until 1987. They moved to a senior apartment complex in Atlantic, Iowa.
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Embree, Wilma, 9/18/2001
The Wilma Embree interview follows her life chronologically from a childhood on a farm, through several years of teaching during the second World War to her role as wife, mother, farmer, and teacher in rural Iowa. Her experience documents the attitude of farmers whose membership in the NFO was passive rather than organizational.
Voices from the Land: An Oral History Project in Iowa
Oral histories with Iowa farm women conducted as part of the Rural Women's Project of the Iowa Women's Archives.
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