Zara Boals

Zara Louise Boals, youngest daughter and youngest child of the late William James Boals and Lucy Stair Boals was born March 5, 1903 at the farm North of Garden City, Missouri.
She attended the Garden City Grade School and graduated from the Garden City High School in 1921.
In December of 1921, Zara entered Central Missouri State Teachers College at Warrensburg, Missouri and received a life certificate to teach. After teaching two years in the grades at Rockville, Missouri, she returned to Central Missouri State Teachers College and received her B.S. Degree in Education, with a major in both General Agriculture and Social Studies. After teaching mathematics, agriculture and science for several years in several high schools of Missouri she attended the University of Missouri at Columbia, Missouri and received a major in mathematics.
Zara taught mathematics, bookkeeping and other subjects in Missouri High Schools for twenty-two years, a total of twenty-four years teaching. None of her teachings was done in Cass County.
Zara was teaching her fifth year at Pilot Grove, Missouri, when it was necessary to give up teaching because of the death of her sister, Agnes, and the serious injury of Frank, her brother and the knowledge that Pet, another sister had cancer.
As a teacher, she put the student's interest first and her pay check last. She cherished the words of her students, their parents and her superintendents, who appreciated her efforts. Zara held the welfare of her family first and spent many hours on trains and buses to get home as often as she could to see them.
Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by three brothers, William James Boals Jr., John Stair Boals and Frank B. Boals; two sisters, Agnes Boals and Pet Mae Boals.
She is survived by cousins and many friends.
Graveside services were held Tuesday, April 22, 2008 at Clearfork Cemetery near Garden City, Missouri under the direction of Dickey Funeral Home, Garden City, Missouri.