Nine years later, they built a farm home north of Timken, on what was known as the Kraisinger-Dirks place. They lived first in a rental home east of Rush Center, during which time their daughter Elizabeth Ann Schwindt was born. In 1970, Mary and Gail moved to Rush County. Her life-long love of American and English history and literature led her to love and join the Episcopal Church. Following two years of teaching English at Dodge City Senior High School and completing an MA degree in English at Fort Hays, Mary and Gail moved to northeastern Arizona for a three year stint in teaching English to Navajo children in the public schools in the heart of the Navajo Reservation at Chinle, AZ where their son Jeffrey Boone Schwindt was born.
Mary and Gail Schwindt were married November 28, 1963, at the Evangelical United Brethren Church in LaCrosse, KS. A 1957 graduate of Wilburton High School, Mary graduated from Eastern A&M Junior College in Wilburton, from Southeastern State College in Durant, OK, and from Fort Hays State University. and Marie (Harris) Boone, the first of two daughters.
She was born Januin Wilburton, Oklahoma to Wayne G. Mary Elizabeth (Boone) Schwindt, 76, Timken, died Thursday, Jat the Locust Grove Village in LaCrosse after a long battle with liver disease.
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