Edith B. Fox Post Falls

Edith Amelia (Bridgewater) Fox, Post Falls, is 100 years old today. Born March 20, 1895, in Belgrade, Mont., she is currently residing in a nursing home in the Spokane Valley where she has been since November, 1994. She was married to Charles Fox, whom she later divorced. He has since passed away.

Mrs. Fox started teaching school at the age of 18 in 1913 in Broadwater County, Mont., in a country school for grades 1-8. She used to pick up one of her students on horseback. She homesteaded in Broadwater County in 1922. She attended Dillon Normal school in Dillon, Mont., and also the University of Montana, Missoula. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the Western Washington College of Education, Bellingham, Wash., in 1949.

In the 1930’s she started the first city/county library in Townsend, Mont. She was elected county superintendent of Broadwater County in 1932 and served from 1933-46 when she resigned to take a position in the elementary schools in Polson, Mont., where she taught until 1957. From 1959-69 she was a parttime city librarian in Polson.

She had a book of children’s poem’s published in 1951, “Wimble Folk and Rimble Seed.” Her hobby was quilting until December, 1993.

Edith is the mother of daughter, Phyllis J. Evans, of Ronan, Mont., and adopted daughter, Myrta M. Convery, Post Falls. She also has two nephews, Thomas Bridgewater and Kenneth Bridgewater, both of Shelton, Wash.

Mrs. Fox has three grandchildren: Becky Seymour, Missoula, Barry Evans, Wilmington, Del., and Cody Vinson, Seattle; and a great-granddaughter, Stephanie Seymour, Missoula.

When asked to what does she attributes her longevity to, she replied, “walking a lot for exercise and shopping, being an avid reader to further my education and to keep abreast of current affairs.”