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- From Find A Grave - Karen
The youngest of seven children, just like her father, Lottie grew up on a farm at the Tone Corners, at the southern end of Bruce Twp., Chippewa Co. The nearest town is actually Pickford, in the next township over. Her father passed when she was seven and so she had no memory of him. She was raised in the house he had built. As a young woman she attended Normal School and began teaching early primary school, for the first nine years in one room schoolhouses. In the mid-1930s her mother sold the farm and the family moved into the Sault. In 1938 she married Orville Christie. By 1942 they had their own home in Donaldson, Bruce Twp., and the couple raised two boys and two girls together. Lottie went back to teaching school in the 1950s, and in 1963 received a B.A.in Teaching from Northern Michigan University. The couple separated in 1963 and she moved back to the Sault. Then she taught early primary on Kinchloe A.F.B. (Chippewa Co.), and from 1966 to her 1976 retirement in the Ann Arbor School System. A couple of years later she spent a year volunteer teaching on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona. In the 1970s all of her children lived in Ann Arbor, but in the 1980s three of them moved to Traverse City, and so she joined them in 1991. It is there that she spent her final years. A few months before she died she was told that she was now a great-great-grandmother. When she passed she had eighteen genetic descendants plus two adopted.
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Singing Our Family Song
1914 - 2005 (90 years)
