Esther K. Rafferty

Miss Esther K. Rafferty

Talented Norwich Girl Who Goes to Albany Normal College

Utica Saturday Globe, October, 1912

 

 

Esther K. Rafferty

1886 - 1986

Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  Miss Esther K. Rafferty has resigned as teacher of biology and first year Latin in Norwich High School to be instructor of biology in the Normal College at Albany and begin her duties there on Monday of the coming week.

 

Miss Rafferty is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel T. Rafferty, of Sherburne [Chenango Co., NY].  She is a graduate of the Smyrna High School, of the training class in Norwich High School and of the New York State Normal College. After teaching in schools in this vicinity for a time she became a teacher in the Norwich schools something over a year ago.

 

Her resignation was regretfully received by the Board of Education who have secured Miss Nellie McAllister, of Ithaca, a Cornell graduate, to fill the position here.

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Death Notice

The Orlando Sentinel, January 29, 1986

Esther R. Woodard, 99, 1111S. Lakemont Ave., Winter Park, died Sunday.  Born in Smyrna, N.Y., she moved to Winter Park from Albany, N.Y., in 1932.  She was a homemaker and a Methodist.  Baldwin -Fairchild Funeral home, Orlando.

Husband's Obituary

Albany Times Union, April 11, 1953

Clifford A. Woodard, 89, professor emeritus of biology at State college for Teachers, died recently at Orlando, Fla, where he had lived for the past 18 years, according to word received in Albany.  Funeral services were conducted at Orlando.  Professor Woodard joined the Teachers College Faculty in 1907 and headed the biology department for many years before his retirement in 1933.  He was born at Rexleigh, Washington County. Before coming to the Albany college, he was superintendent of schools at Saugerties and Oyster Bay.  Professor Woodard was internationally known as a chess expert and had published articles on the game.  He also wrote for the old Youth's Companion.  Surviving are his wife, the former Esther Rafferty, of Orlando; two sisters, and four nieces.