Clara E. ZENTMIRE

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Cherokee Sentinel,
Friday, Oct. 7, 1921, page 1:

Funeral of Clara Zentmire
Ben Zentmire arrived here Friday afternoon at 3:30 with the body of his sister, Miss Clara, who died at Long Beach, Calif, September 21st. Claud and wife were down from Fort Scott and the sister, Mrs. Flora Lynch was here from El Paso, Texas. Funeral services were conducted at (unreadable) o'clock at the Presbyterian church by Rev. E.L. Torrence and she was laid to rest beside her father and mother in the Cherokee cemetery.
Clara Elizabeth Zentmire was born in Cherokee September 27, 1879. She graduated from our schools in 1894, which at that time included the high school. She then taught in our city schools for several years, going to Texas where she taught three years. In 1917 she went to Arizona where she continued her work as a teacher. Last year she was a member of the faculty of the Northern Arizona Normal School at Flagstaff. While teaching in a summer session at that place she was taken sick and went to the hospital at Lordsburg, New Mexico. Later she went to Long Beach, California where she died September 21, 1921.
She leaves two brothers, Claud of Fort Scott, and Ben of Lordsburg, N.M. and one sister, Mrs. Flora Lynch of El Paso, Texas, besides numerour other relatives. She was a consistent Christian, having been a member of the Presbyterian church for many years.
We have been acquainted with the Zentmire family all our lives and know Miss Clara to be a fine woman who devoted her life to the profession of teaching. She took a great interest in it, and at all times was looking for the opportunity of making herself more proficient in her chosen line. It was not known even by her own folks that she was in such bad health as it afterwards proved to be in. She wrote one of her happy sunshine letters to the Sentinel after she got to Long Beach telling us the news of the Cherokee colony, and we did not even think of her being in such poor health.
We extend our heartfelt sympathy to the brothers and sister. It seems to us as though they were closer together than most children because their parents had been dead so long, and Clara being to older was looked to for advice and sympathy.
Contributed by Cheryl White