Sargent, Mary Hallock Wells Mrs. – Obituary
Mary Sargent died Sept. 3, 2007. She was born in 1922, in Baker, Ore., the solitary, much-indulged, much managed child of Blaine and Lillian Spencer Hallock. She went to local schools except for three high school years at Helen Bush School in Seattle, Wash. She graduated from Baker High School. She attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., where she earned a bachelor’s degree in education. After college she taught second grade in Portland, Ore. In 1945, she married Ross E. Wells, a petroleum geologist. They lived in several Rocky Mountain states, finally settling in Denver, Colo. They had four children, … Read more