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Obituaries: Margaret H. Gruver, 88, teacher for the deaf
Last update: November 14, 1999 - 10:00 PM
Margaret H. (Peg) Gruver grew up around deaf children, so
it was no surprise that she became a teacher of the deaf.
Both of her parents taught deaf students, and her father was
principal of several institutions for the deaf.
"My aunt knew everything about teaching the deaf," said
Margaret Hicks of New Jersey. "She played with deaf students
who were boarders of the institutions." It was from these
students that she learned sign language, her niece said.
Gruver, a former assistant principal of the Rhode Island School
for the Deaf in Providence, died Friday of natural causes at
Friendship Village in Bloomington, where she had lived for
the past 20 years. She was 88.
She was the first president of the Friendship Village Resident
Association. And she was the second president of Friends of
the Andersen Horticultural Library of the Minnesota Landscape
Arboretum from 1989 to 1992.
She graduated in 1933 from Wheaton College in Massachusetts
with a degree in sociology, and then taught at a school for
the deaf in Pennsylvania.
After a few years, she went to teach at the Rhode Island School
for the Deaf, and in 1945 was promoted to assistant principal.
She maintained that position until 1966, when she went back
to teaching. She then taught at the Governor Baxter State School
for the Deaf in Maine and the Moses Brown School for Boys in
Rhode Island.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Friendship
Village Hall, 8100 Highwood Dr., Bloomington. |
