Voices of Stafford

Madalene was born and grew up in the rural western part of Stafford. After graduating from the public schools, she worked for a while for a northern VA office of the telephone company where she met and married her husband. To satisfy a life long desire to teach school, she earned a degree and taught for a short while in MD before transferring to Hartwood Elementary School. Madalene became an activist and successfully brought some needed changes in school policy. Upon retirement as a full time teacher, she led a movement to establish a modern Senior Center which is now located in the Rowser Building just south of the Stafford Courthouse. (65 minutes)