![]() ![]() She graduated in 1911 and the family moved to Columbus, where her father joined the faculty at Capital University. Since Anna, Ohio was too small a community to offer secondary education, Lois Lenski made a daily train trip to Sidney, Ohio to attend high school. In addition to being an avid reader, she was also skilled at sewing and drawing, often copying pictures from books and magazines. ![]() Lois Lenski's home life instilled in her the importance of learning. Marietta Lenski was a devoted mother and homemaker who encouraged her children to work hard and pursue a college education. Although a strict father and a busy pastor, Richard Lenski always made time for his children and involved them in his hobbies of drawing and photography. Lenski's autobiography, Journey Into Childhood, provides a detailed description of her years in Anna. The next twelve years of Lois Lenski's life were spent in Anna, and many of her fondest childhood memories were of life in this small town. In 1899, Pastor Richard Lenski was called to serve a parish in Anna, Ohio, and the family moved to the small rural community west of Springfield. ![]() The Lenskis had five children, three girls and two boys, of which Lois was their fourth child. Her mother, a native of Franklin County, Ohio, was a schoolteacher before her marriage. ![]() Lenski, a Prussian immigrant, was a Lutheran clergyman and later an academic and author of a standard series of Lutheran commentaries. ![]()
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