In 1913, Susanville teacher, Mary Hurley retired at the age of 69. In 1880, twice widowed at the age of 36, she was accepted as a teacher at the Susanville Grammar School. She taught there for four years, and briefly relocated to Los Angeles. In 1887, she returned to Susanville and was hired at her old teaching job in Susanville, where she taught for twenty-six years.

But her retirement was different than others. She was the first Lassen County teacher to receive a pension from the Teachers’ Retirement Fund of the State of California. Her quarterly retirement  check was for $125.00. In 1924, she moved to San Francisco where she passed away on February 15, 1929. She is buried in the Susanvillw Cemetery, but has no headstone. While the Hurley name is not known these days, she has lots of relatives, her one sister,  Cetera  married Ben Leavitt and the other Florence married Clinton DeForest

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