Mary Ethel Pugh

Mary Ethel Pugh

Mary Ethel Pugh

1910-2015

Mary Ethel Pugh, 104, Maryville, Missouri, died January 8, 2015 at Village Care Center, Maryville.

She was born November 29, 1910 in Guilford, MOissouri to the late Marion and Eliza (Martin) Oliver.

She married Ernest Vincent Pugh, October 28, 1941.

Mary Ethel was a 1929 graduate of Guilford High School. She then graduated from Northwest Missouri State University with a Bachelors degree in Elementary Education. After that she received her Masters Degree in Primary Education from the University of Missouri.

Mrs. Pugh was a retired elementary school teacher for the Maryville School District and had also taught in rural Nodaway County schools. She was a member of First United Methodist Church, Maryville. She was also a member of the Missouri Retired Teacher’s Association, Alpha Sigma Alpha Sorority and Chapter HT of the P.E.O. Sisterhood.

She was preceded in death by husband Ernest Pugh on November 24, 1975, parents, sister Lillian Beggs, brothers Glen, Lee, Afton, James “Virgil”, Harold, and Carl “Loyd” Oliver.

She is survived by her brother Dale Oliver of Stanberry, Missouri, and several nieces and nephews.

A visitation will be held from 1:00-2:00 p.m. Monday, January 12, 2015 at Price Funeral Home, Maryville. It will be followed by the funeral service at 2:00 p.m.

Burial: Miriam Cemetery, Maryville, Missouri.

Memorials may be given to the First United Methodist Church, 102 North Main Street, Maryville, MO, 64468.