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Miss Viola Margaret Hinshaw, 27,
native of Greenleaf, teacher and world traveler, died Tuesday
afternoon at a Boise hospital, following a month's illness.
She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Hinshaw, prominent
Greenleaf resents for many years, and sister of Ezra B.
Hinshaw of Boise, president and general manager of the C. C.
Anderson stores.
The body was brought to
the Peckham chapel Tuesday night from Boise, where funeral
arrangements are pending until word is received from relatives
residing elsewhere.
Miss Hinshaw was
born at Greenleaf on February 18, 1912. Following
graduation from the Greenleaf Academy she spent two years at
Wheaton, Ill., College Conservatory of Music. Later
returning to Caldwell, she attended the College of Idaho,
where she graduated in 1934.
After
teaching in the Boise school system for two years, Miss
Hinshaw obtained leave of absence for a world tour, and upon
her return, lectured and wrote extensively of her experiences.
In the summer of 1938, she attended the famed Beyreuth,
Germany, music festival. At that time she was music
instructor at the Boise junior high school.
Exchange Teacher
In 1939, Miss Hinshaw was selected through the
English Speaking Union as an exchange teacher to England.
Soon after her arrival there, war was declared and she
remained about six weeks. She was unable to assume her
instructorship at Manchester due to war emergency.
Miss Hinshaw had given more than 70 talks and lectures in
south-western Idaho, in which she related her experiences in
foreign countries. She spoke mostly before school groups
and civic organizations.
Miss Hinshaw
was a member of the Greenleaf Friends church.
Survivors besides her parents and a brother residing in Boise,
includes another brother, Dr. H. Corwin Hinshaw, physician at
the Mayo clinic in Rochester, Minn.; a sister, Mrs. Norman
Gundry, who recently returned to Greenleaf and Boise with her
husband from missionary work in Africa. |
