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Pine Mountain Settlement School
\nSeries 09: Biography – Students
\nSeries 19: Students
\nSeries 20: Alumni and Alumni Relations
\nOma Creech Student<\/h5>\n

OMA CREECH, Student 1914-1926?<\/h3>\n
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TAGS:<\/strong> Oma Creech, students, Dr. Oma Creech, Oma Creech Fiske, William and Sally Creech, Henry C. and Delia Creech, weaving, Berea College, Louisville Medical School, Dr. Alfreda Withington, physicians, alumni, UNRRA, Oma Creech Fund, Marguerite Butler Bidstrup<\/p>\n

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Restored version. Angela Melville Album II. Part III. [left] ‘Delia”; [right] “Oma.”[melv_ii_album_124x.jpg]<\/p><\/div>\n

OMA CREECH Student: Early Years<\/h3>\n

As a little girl, Oma Creech’s talents were already apparent.\u00a0When Oma was twelve years old, one of her teachers, Marguerite Butler<\/a>, wrote admiringly of her in a 1921 letter<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The children certainly have done well in school. I can[not] believe Oma Creech, Delia\u2019s<\/em> girl<\/em>, will be in high school next year. She is brilliant really. She leads the class. She is…so capable in every way.<\/em><\/p>\n

Oma was the granddaughter of Uncle William<\/a> and Aunt Sally Creech, the donors of land to the Pine Mountain Settlement School. Born in 1909 in Jane, Kentucky, she was the second of eight children of Henry C. and Delia Creech<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All of the Creech’s children were students at Pine Mountain Settlement School (PMSS), including Oma. The following images and transcription are of letters she wrote as a young child.<\/p>\n\n\t\t