Mystery Solved

On a Sunday six years ago (January 15, 2012) I posted comments about the names of some of my grade-school teachers. You can go back and read the whole thing if you like, but the part I want to follow up on is this:

And then there is the mystery of Miss Lauschke.  She was my first-grade teacher, and she left us for a week or so toward the end of the school year to get married. When she came back, she told us she had a new name, so it was inappropriate for us to call her Miss Lauschke and incorrect to call her Mrs. Lauschke, but she was afraid her new last name would be hard for us to pronounce (like Lauschke was a bargain?) and since there was only a week or so left of school, she decided we could just call her Mrs. Anna.  I assumed at the time and have believed ever since that Anna was her first name.

Then today, nearly 60 years later, I see on that report card, where it says Name of Teacher, she has written Corinne Lauschke.

So, who the hell was Anna? 

Well, I now have the whole story, and I blame my earlier mistake on having been six years old at the time. It seems I misunderstood what she told us about her new name and also what her new name was.

Through the miracle my subscription to ancestry.com, I have discovered that Corinne Lauschke was married on April 25, 1953, to one Paul Anda.

She told us to call her Mrs. Anda, not Mrs. Anna.

I should go back and check those report cards to see what grades I got in “listens well.”