Zelma Juanita Hicks Margelos of Solomons Island Maryland Born Feb. 5, 1914 died May 18 at University of Maryland Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. She was the wife of the late Peter Andrew Margelos. Zelma Juanita Hicks Margelos, a retired USA government employee, daughter of Clarence Earle and Daisy Irene (Darland) Hicks, was born on a farm in Poweshiek County, Iowa, USA, 5 Feb. 1914. As a farm girl, she was active in 4-H Club and a member of the 1929 champion county demonstration team competing at the Iowa State Fair. After graduation from Montezuma High School in 1931, she attended the Murphy school of Shorthand at Oskaloosa, Iowa; completed a rural school normal training course at Iowa State Teachers College, Cedar Falls, Iowa, and received a teacher’s certificate in 1933. Temporary employment included work in a law office and the county office of the Federal Government’s corn-hog farm support program. She served as office assistant of the combined Mahaska County Farm Bureau and County Extension Service office, Oskaloosa, Iowa, 1934-1941. Her Federal civil service career started as a clerk-stenographer with the Agricultural Adjustment Administration of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1941. During her 31 years of Government service, she [...]
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