Betty Saathoff Henning grew up on a farm between Miller and Sumner on the Buffalo/Dawson County line. She and her sisters attended grade school the first few years in Miller until the Miller School District realized, while she was a fourth grader, that her family was technically not in the Miller School District. Her father refused to pay the tuition because times were tough, so Betty and her sisters attended a one-room school 1.5 mile west of their home named Trappers Grove.
Except for days of extremely cold weather, Betty walked to school every day to a one-room school house that had 20 students. Where the railroad ran past their farm, there we days when the maintenance crew who operated the “Pop Car,” (that was about 10 feet long and powered by a small engine that would go “pop pop”), would stop and give them a ride to a point that was ½ mile south of the school. She and her sisters attended school at Trappers Grove until Betty was a sophomore, and because she was an accomplished pianist, and the Miller School had no one that could play the piano, the district proceeded to annex the farm the Saathoff’s live on into the Miller School District. There she graduated in 1943.
Betty enjoyed her time attending Trappers Grove and is grateful for the lessons learned and friends made as a student.
Except for days of extremely cold weather, Betty walked to school every day to a one-room school house that had 20 students. Where the railroad ran past their farm, there we days when the maintenance crew who operated the “Pop Car,” (that was about 10 feet long and powered by a small engine that would go “pop pop”), would stop and give them a ride to a point that was ½ mile south of the school. She and her sisters attended school at Trappers Grove until Betty was a sophomore, and because she was an accomplished pianist, and the Miller School had no one that could play the piano, the district proceeded to annex the farm the Saathoff’s live on into the Miller School District. There she graduated in 1943.
Betty enjoyed her time attending Trappers Grove and is grateful for the lessons learned and friends made as a student.