Viola Meyer Eden

Viola Meyer Eden was born Sept. 24, 1932, to Pete and Emma (Alberts) Meyer, the first of five children, near Davis, South Dakota. Having attended Middleton Township District No. 23, a one-room school, for the first eight years, she graduated from Hurley High School in 1950. Viola attended Northwestern Jr. College in Orange City, Iowa, earning a teaching certificate for rural schools in SD. After teaching for three years, she attended Black Hills Teachers College in Spearfish, South Dakota, before transferring to Seattle Pacific University (then Seattle Pacific College) from which she graduated in 1956 with a BA in education. She taught in Glenora, Spangle, Lind, Rockford and Freeman, Washington schools from 1956 to 1982.