Individual Details

"Jewel attended a one room school in the Long Branch Community where they lived when she was a child. In 1918 she started school in Nocona and graduated there in 1925. She attended Decatur Baptist College one year and was certified to teach. She taught for 40 years and attended Summer Sessions at North Texas University to obtain both her BS and M.Ed. Degrees. She taught at many country schools in Montague County and at the Oddfellow Orphans Home in Corsicana. The last 27 years of her career was spent in teaching third grade in Burkburnett, Texas where she won many honors. She was the first teacher to receive a life membership in the Burkburnett Parent-Teacher Association and the first teacher to have an annual dedicated to her in the Burkburnett school system. She retired in 1971 and moved back to Nocona where she and her sister lived together in the old home house of their parents.

"Jewel died 15 February 1988 in Nocona and is buried in the Nocona Cemetery next to her parents. Cumi Jewell Reed's tombstone gives her birth and death dates and reads, "40 Years a Teacher." " (Reta M. Evans, 5605 Westcreek Dr., Fort Worth, Texas, author of "A Martin Family Saga" Henington Publishing Co., Wolf City, Texas, Library of Congress Card Catalog # 91-076322; Obituary of Cumi Jewel Reed, Wichita Star Telegram, 1988.)

Birth	February 13, 1906	Nocona, Montague County, Texas
Death	February 15, 1988	Nocona, Montague County, Texas
Burial		Nocona Cemetery, Nocona, Montague County, Texas

Father	James Monroe Reed (1882 - 1964)
Mother	Nora Ethel Martin (1883 - 1964)
Sibling	Reed (1903 - 1903)
Sibling	Myrtle Lois Reed (1908 - )