Edna Olivia Cusack was born September 16, 1908 at Carrington to Frank and Thea Lund Cusack. She received her grade and high school education in Carrington and a degree from Valley City State Teachers College. Edna taught in elementary schools in North Dakota and Montana for seven and one-half years and then served as Foster County Superintendent of Schools from 1935 to 1953. During this period the schools were faced with financial problems and during World War It a shortage of teachers. This was followed by several years of school district reorganization.
For eight years Edna worked for the North Dakota Easter Seal Society, she then continued her work with the physically handicapped as principal at the Crippled Children's School in Jamestown for twelve years. She has now retired and lives in Seattle.
Source: A History of Foster County 1983 Page 20B