Lynn Forster Davis
Just now discovered my most favorite elementary school teacher has passed. How can I describe how wonderful a teacher she was?!! Her students wanted to please her, we wanted to do good to make her proud of us. She was so patient and caring. She was also my teacher when JFK was assassinated. I shall never forget how we all trickled back into our classroom that day, all dazed and confused, and then to see Miss Cox appear straight from the teacher’s lounge, her eyes all red, with tissue in hand. We had a teacher that was truly human, and not afraid to show it. We didn’t do any schoolwork that afternoon, but we got a lot done, because we talked about the what, the where, the why, and the how of what had just happened on that sadly historic day. It was SO helpful for us ten years olds to help us grasp this event. While in junior high, I still visited her after school on occasion, helping her with little classroom tasks. Years later, while in college, I crossed paths with her while in the mall, and she still remembered my name. Rest In Peace, Miss Cox. I will never forget you.
