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Données personnelles Gwendolyn Ella Andrews-Magandy 

• Elle est née le 24 septembre 1897 dans MN, Verenigde Staten.
• Elle est décédée novembre 1978 dans Tyler, Lincoln Co., MN, USA, elle avait 81 ans.

  Gwendolyn Ella Andrews Magandy was born Sept. 24, 1897 to Ella Grace Fifield Andrews and Joseph William Andrews. Her mother Ella died when Gwen was an infant and Gwen was adopted by her aunt, Celia Fifield Magandy and Walter Elmer Magandy. Her birth father Joseph Andrews felt he could not care for the infant while raising the older children.
  
  Gwen never married, was a history teacher/libarian at Tyler High School, Tyler, Lincoln County, Minnesota.
  
  Since I have found no information on Gwen's birth father death or burial at this time, I have linked her to her adoptive father Walter Magandy so a link can be also shown to her adoptive mother/aunt Cecelia Fifield Magandy as well as her birth mother Ella Grace Fifield Andrews. - Darleen Dorenkamper
  
  I FONDLY REMEMBER GWENDOLYN MAGANDY
  written by Sornie Sorensen
  
  Tyler - Thursday Tyler bade farewell to its number one sports fan, Gwen Magandy. I will always remember Gwen as a great fan, coach, teacher and friend.
  
  Very few of our present students remember Gwen and know why we call her "Tyler's number one sports fan."
  
  Gwen was a graduate of Tyler and played on Tyler girls championship team in 1915-16. This gave her a "love" of the game which she carried throughout her life.
  
  When she returned to teach at Tyler, she coached several girls championship teams from 1926 to 1935. Girls basketball was dropped in 1935.
  
  Back in those days, athletics did not have the fan following we see today, especially for away games. One fan could always be counted on. That fan was Gwen and her famous car "Henrietta" (A Ford).
  
  If the team went, so did Gwen, who now kept her hand in sports as cheerleader advisor. She always took the cheerleaders, and others, if there was room.
  
  Win, lose or draw, Gwen always treated the teams at season's end. Not only sports teams but play casts, drama teams and musicals were never forgotten by Gwen.
  
  Gwen had the largest family of anyone in the community. To her every student she taught in 34 years as teacher and principal were part of her family.
  
  She followed each and everyone of them through their successes and failures. She wrote thousands of letters of encouragement and congratulations.
  
  Gwen never forgot a shower, wedding, birth or any major event in her family's lives.
  
  In her days as principal, she was often asked for recommendations. We are very sure Gwen never wrote a bad one, she could always find a person's good points.
  
  Gwen was known for her good discipline which was always administered with a "heart". Stern she was, but everyone received a second chance and many more chances if warranted.
  
  We remember how graduates would come back to visit, Gwen was always the first one they wanted to see and visit with.
  
  Gwen saw many changes over the years and she adjusted to all of them, although she may not have agreed with some of them.
  
  She saw the school change from the now junior high building and original senior building to the present buildings which includes the elementary, the special arts addition which includes the band, ad, home ec and shop. She saw the new gym and locker addition and remodeling of senior and junior high buildings.
  
  I remember when the present library was a study hall, library and classroom all in one. Gwen would teach history, be in charge of the study hall and check out books all at the same time. We might add one could hear a "pin" drop as Gwen was in complete command.
  
  Her tenure was not without humor and I'm sure everyone of her "family" could relate a few.
  
  A few we recall were from the old study hall. Gwen's desk and chair were on an elevated platform where she had a good view of the entire room.
  
  One day Gwen walked in and soon everyone was laughing much to Gwen's' irritation. She saw nothing funny. But she looked down to find she had on two different colored shoes. She joined in the laughter.
  
  Some students in the last hour study hall would slide out of their desks and crawl on their hands and knees to the hall to escape out the fire exit… sometimes a half hour before the final bell.
  
  Gwen discovered the prank. One day she met the boys at the hallway exit. One can imaging their expression when they looked up to see Gwen blocking their escape.
  
  The study hall had several windows that were open in the fall and spring allowing in many boxelder bugs. Gwen would walk around the hall stepping on them. It was well known Gwen was a staunch Republican. One day as she stepped on a bug she was heard to mutter "darn Democrat!!"
  
  Gwen was well organized with everything in her desk having a place. She would be conducting a class and without taking her eyes off her class, she would open and reach for what she wanted and bring it out.
  
  One day someone planted a mouse trap in one drawer. Sure enough, Gwen opened the drawer during class and put her hand on the trap. It snapped.
  
  She never uttered a word, but as she looked over the class, the culprit was so "red" she had little trouble picking him out.
  
  Walking through the halls of THS Monday, I noticed not a single memento of one who gave her entire life to the students of THS.
  
  Gwen will always be remembered as a great fan, teacher and friend.

• Un enfant de Joseph William Andrews et Ella Grace Fifield
• Elle a été adoptée par Celia Ann Fifield
• Elle a été adoptée par Anthony Whitfield Magandy
• Cette information a été mise à jour pour la dernière fois le 13 août 2016.

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