Ms. Leon Cornell Obituary

Ms. Leon Cornell attended Sherman High School in Seth, WV. View the obituary, post a memory, or share a photo about Ms. Leon Cornell.

Graduation Year	Class of 1978
Date of Passing	Feb 02, 2009
About	Please note the passing of Ms. Leon Cornell who taught at Sherman High School. Funeral services for Ms. Leon E. Cornell, 88, of Lake Jackson, Texas, will be held at 10:30 a.m. February 6, 2009, at Lakewood Funeral Chapel, 98 North Dixie Drive in Lake Jackson, with burial to follow at Restwood Memorial Park. Ms. Cornell died February 2, 2009. . Ms. Cornell was a 1958 graduate of Morris Harvey College in Charleston, West Virginia. After a 45-year teaching career, she retired from the Boone County School System and moved to Williamsburg, Virginia. There, she continued her life’s work in the James-City County Virginia School System for another 10 years. Ms. Cornell was born January 27, 1921, to Edna and Watson Elkins of Ashford, West Virginia. She was preceded in death by her parents; brother, Willis Watson Elkins of Ashford, West Virginia; and sister, Eva Smith of South Charleston, West Virginia. She is survived by her son, Larry Cornell and wife, Sue, of Lake Jackson, Texas; sisters, Nancy Bossie of Dunbar, West Virginia, and Christine Snyder of Pensacola, Florida; and sister-in-law, Frankie Elkins of Ashford, West Virginia. Ms. Cornell also is survived by her grandson, Tony Cornell of Lake Jackson, Texas, and granddaughter, Kathryn Cornell Adams and husband, Chip, of Houston, Texas.

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Richard Huddle '71 said:

Mrs. Cornell was my junior English teacher in 1969-1970 school year. She was a tremendous teacher. She made us realize that our written word represents us in our absence. And she worked hard to get us to think. There is hardly a day goes by in my professional life that I don't think of Mrs. Cornell and my other English instructors from Sherman. She touched countless lives.

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