Erie County (PA) Genealogy  
Schools - Public & Private

Harbor Creek Township
High School Faculty September 1939

Contributed by Katie Rose Costello

The photo below and information about it has been provided by our Greene Township coordinator Katie Rose Costello. She provides the following information:

"My parents were both educators. My Dad taught reading and English, as I understand it, at Harbor Creek High School, and my Mom taught business subjects. She was a young, (just graduated from Mercyhurst College) beginning teacher, and lived in Erie, as did my Dad. Somehow, she started riding with him, as she had no car at the time. I guess riding together led to love, as they were eventually married, and had three children. I don’t believe they taught together for too many years, but this photo must have been early in Mom’s teaching days. Here they are, both in this photo of the faculty at Harbor Creek High School! Mom is in the center, with square neck, and puffed sleeve polka-dotted dress, and Dad is in front, second from left. I do not know the names of any of the other faculty members, although a couple of them look somewhat familiar. My Dad was born in 1909, and died in 1984, and Mom was born in 1918, and died in 2002. They were married in 1943, during a 3 day pass my Dad got from the military."