Sara Leet was born in 1905 to John Leet and Clara
Bell Rose Leet in Campbellsville, Taylor County, Kentucky. Her father, John Leet, was the son of Isaac
Leet and Sarah Freeland Leet originally from Pennsylvania. Her mother, Clara Bell Rose Leet, was the
daughter of Jacob Rose and Ester Snyder Rose again originally from Pennsyvania. The family farmed and both parents died in
1925.
Sara had sisters; Mae Elizabeth Leet (1900-1980)
and Anne Lett ( -1938). Sara attended
the University of Kentucky and graduated in 1928. She taught school in Kentucky and then came
to Delmar, Delaware about 1930. She
taught Home economics at the high school.
Also at that time the home economic instructor was in charge of the
cafeteria. She was very active in social
events in Delmar. Shortly after arriving, in 1931, she had to be admitted to
Peninsular General Hospital for appendicitis.
After her operation she returned to Kentucky to rest. In the fall she was back to work in Delmar High School. In 1933 her sister Anne came to Delmar and
lived with her. In 1938 Anne died at
Peninsula General Hospital in Salisbury, Maryland. Her body was returned to Campbellsville
Kentucky to her sister Mae.
Prior to
1925 the John Leet family was living on Saloma Road outside of
Campbellsville. A neighbor (Nancy Wise
Newton) died in 1920 and the Leet girls
went down to sit with the dead as it was called at the time. There Mae would meet Samuel Joseph Newton,
son of the deceased, and in January 31, 1924 they would marry. When Sara died in 1993 the only living
relative she had was Clara Newton Head, a niece of hers.
Sara Leet in 1935 taught artificial respiration at
Camp Otonka, the YWCA camp on the Indian River. Not sure which one she is in the picture.
In January of 1943 Sara married William Bell Lowe
(1897-1965) son of Whitefield S. Lowe. They
would live on Monticello Avenue in Salisbury, Md. until they died. Shortly after that she transferred to the
Wicomico County Maryland School System.
She would teach until 1970 teaching in Pittsville High School and
Wicomico senior High School. She taught a total of 42 years in Kentucky,
Delaware and Maryland
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