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Occupation: Public grammar school teacher
Note: Chatfield Elementary School in Grand Junction, Colorado is named after her.

Died: at age 101; after a lengthy illness

Never married, no children.

Minnie CHATFIELD, 3177 Road D½, died Tuesday, Sept. 28, 1982, at the LaVilla Grande Care Center after a lengthy illness. She was 101.

Miss CHATFIELD, a resident of Grand Junction for 79 years, was a retired school teacher. Chatfield Elementary School was named after Miss CHATFIELD, who taught from 1908 until her retirement in 1951. She continued to substitute teach for several years after her retirement.

She was born on Dec. 29, 1880, at Washington County, Kan., where she spent her childhood and attended schools. She also attended Friends Academy in Washington, Kan., and Colorado State Teachers College in Greeley, now known as the University of Northern Colorado.

Miss Chatfield moved to Mesa County in 1903. Her first teaching job in Mesa County was in Garfield School. She also taught a three-month term at Vega school, transferring to Pear Park School, where she taught until her retirement.

Miss Chatfield's interests included teaching and church work. She was a member of the Pear Park Baptist Church, the local, state and national Retired Teachers Association and the Royal Neighbors Lodge.

Survivors include two nieces, Doris Hicks, Grand Junction, and Beatrice Latham, San Pedro, Calif.; two nephews, Robert CHATFIELD, Redding, Calif., and Dan CHATFIELD, Waukesha, Wis.; six great-nieces and nephews, including Donna Wood of Grand Junction; six great-great nieces and nephews, and eight great-great-great nieces and nephews.

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