H. W. "Bill" Hargiss
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Vera (Strickler) Hargiss

Mrs. Vera Hargiss, a teacher of music, was born in Solomon, Kansas, January 15, 1888.Vera Hargiss

Vera Strickler graduated from Salina High School in 1905.

More on her upbringing is told through her mother's life:

Emma O. (Sexton) Strickler

When Homer Woodson (Bill) Hargiss was 21, he was a senior in Kansas State Teachers College at Emporia. It was his second year as captain of the football team; his second year as captain of the track team and his second year as captain of the basketball team.

He was on the baseball team, the gymnastics team. the boxing and wrestling teams. He sang in the glee club. He was working his way through school waiting on tables at a boarding club for his meals and earning money by delivering a laundry route.

It was that same year Bill Hargiss met coed Vera Strickler of Solomon.

"She had transferred to Emporia from Liberty College in Missouri that year," Hargiss related.

Hargiss had a date with another girl to go horseback riding. But he had to drop the girl by a Miss Strickler's place first to borrow a riding habit. That's how he met the future Mrs. Hargiss.

He remembers he didn't get to court Miss Strickler in college very much. The big date he planned for the annual spring party, fell through because he came down with the mumps, Hargiss was so busy with activities and side jobs his senior year at Emporia, he wonders today how he ever got through school.

Hargiss had found his way to Halstead, where Miss Strickler was teaching music in the high school, and convinced her she should give up teaching to become Mrs. Hargiss.   He married Vera Agnes Strickler on 26 Jul 1911 in Emporia.

Wedding announcement

 

Arriving to court Vera 1906

On right, Bill comes to court Vera.

Vera Hargiss

 

 

 

 

 

 

Together they had 4 children - Genevieve, Woodson, Clark, and Shirley.  Shirley is presently living.

Vera died in 1955 and is interred at Maplewood Cemetery, together with Bill Hargiss and her son Woodson who died in 1920.