The Lone Star School District was established in May 1912 and a wood frame school building operated on the northwest quarter of 18-6-1 west of the Principal Meridian in the Rural Municipality of Morris. The school closed in 1922 due to low enrollment and remained closed until September 1927. In the early 1950s, a new school building was erected at the north side of 19-6-1W. It closed permanently in 1956 and henceforth students from this area went to Brunkild School No. 1281 or Sperling Consolidated School No. 1488. A sign commemorates the former school.
The teachers who worked at Lone Star School included: Ruth Bjorklund (1914), Dorothy Hodkinson (1915), Lorna Gordon (1915-1916), Janet McCuag (1916-1917), F. Barker (1916-1917), Violet Laufriann (1918), Ella Brown (1919), Suzie Hezzlewood (1921-1922), Edythe Nevins (1927-1928), Muriel Andrew (1928-1929), Norma Stonehouse Brown (1929), Joyce Heyes (1929-1930), Rosanna Orr (1930-1931), Ethel Murray (1931-1934), Anna Murray (1934-1937), Sophie Tomick (1937-1939), Eileen Howe (1939-1940), Edna Reynolds (1940-1941), Norma McCauley (1941-1942), Edith James (1941-1942), Irene Birney (1941-1942), Marjorie Armstrong (1942-1943), Virginia Huget (1943-1944), Evelyn Leask Griffiths (1944-1946), W. B. Gresham (1946-1947), Connie Houston (1947-1948), Olga Saunders (1948-1949), Dorothy Elliott (1949-1950), Mary Elliot Rance (1950-1953), Mervin Lindsay (1953-1954), and Fern Rose (1954-1956).
Lone Star School (no date) by A. J. Manning
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 6.
Lone Star School commemorative sign (August 2020)
Source: Rose KuzinaSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.48548, W97.59471
denoted by symbol on the map above
One Hundred Years in the History of the Rural Schools of Manitoba: Their Formation, Reorganization and Dissolution (1871-1971) by Mary B. Perfect, MEd thesis, University of Manitoba, April 1978.
Furrows in the Valley: A History of the Municipality and its People compiled by the Morris History Book Committee, edited by Lenore Eidse, 1980.
Aerial photograph A11638-164 [1948], Manitoba Air Photo Library.
We thank Mariette Allen for assistance in locating an aerial photograph of Lone Star School and Rose Kuzina for providing an updated photograph of the school sign.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 1 September 2020
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