In Memory

Margaret Means

August 28, 1990

Margaret Means
 
The memorial service for Margaret Means, 86 of Greenwood, Ind., formerly of Bloomington, Illinois, will be at 2p.m. Tuesday at Beck Memorial Home, Bloomington, Alice Taylor Reed officiating.
 
Burial will follow in Park Hill Cemetery, Bloomington.
 
Miss Means, a long-time geography teacher, died Tuesday (Aug. 28, 1990) at the Midland House Nursing Home, Indianapolis.
 
She was born Oct. 11, 1903, in Bloomington, a daughter of Arthur John and Alice Johnson Means.
 
Survivors include a brother, George Means, Greenwood, Ind.
 
Miss Means was a life member of the Church of Scientists, and was a first reader at Bloomington. She was also a member of Third Church of Christ Scientists, Indianapolis, and the Mother Church, Boston, Mass.
 
She was a graduate of Illinois State University and received her master’s degree from Clark College, Worchester, Mass.
 
Miss Means taught geography at Bloomington High School, Eastern Illinois University, and ISU. In 1936 and 1937, she was an exchange student at Badminton School, Bristol, England. In 1959, she won the Bold Journeys Teachers Award Program of the National Education Association of her innovative teaching about other lands and peoples.
 
She was also a Paul Harris Fellow of the Rotary Foundation. She was a world traveler and was active in geographical professional associations and the American Associations of University Women.
 
Miss Means moved to Greenwood, Ind. In 1973.
 
Memorials made be made to The Principia at Elsah, Illinois 62028, or the Midland House Inc., 3940 E. 56th St., Indianapolis, Ind. 46220.