'A Painted House' brings former teacher, student together

Thursday, February 21, 2002

JACKSON, Mo. -- While teaching English at Central High School from 1940 until she retired in 1976, Miss Inez Smith was among the school's legendary women teachers along with her sister Irene Wright, the late Alene Sadler, math teacher Grace Williams and the late school librarian Mildred Vogelsang.

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