Background
Marie Elizabeth Kachel was born in 1909.
Marie Elizabeth Kachel was born in 1909.
Kachel graduated from Ephrata High School in 1927. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree from Millersville State Teachers College, which is now known as Millersville University, in 1935.
Her parents were Reuben South. Kachel and M. Kathryn Zerfass She later earned her master"s degree in education from Penn State University in 1939. Additionally, Kachel also studied at Duke University and Elizabethtown College. Kachel began her teaching career at a one-room schoolhouse in Clay Township, Pennsylvania, in northern Lancaster County.
She later moved to southern Lancaster County to take a position in the now-defunct East Drumore Township school district.
She retired from teaching after working as a math teacher at Solanco High School, a public high school for many years. They had two children, Loren K. Bucher and Christina Bucher.
Bucher was 87 years old when the book was written and published in 1997. Marie Elizabeth Kachel Bucher died at the Quarryville Presbyterian Home in Quarryville, Pennsylvania, on July 27, 2008, at the age of 98.
She had resided at the nursing home since November 2007.