Avilla Elementary-Middle School

Painting Presented to Avilla School
in Memory of Marcile Uhl

 
(Nick Blotter, an Avilla eighth grader, is pictured here with the painting of Mrs. Marcile Uhl when she worked with him several years ago at Avilla Elementary School.)

For thirty years, from 1973-2003, Mrs. Marcile Uhl worked with hundreds, perhaps thousands, of elementary students at Avilla School.  Mrs. Uhl, who died last year, was remembered at the recent Avilla Middle School awards program.  The school's PTO commissioned former Kendallville resident Debbie Rittenhouse to paint a watercolor of Mrs. Uhl.  The staff at the school donated funds to mat and frame the painting.  Mrs. Uhl's son Scott, her daughter Tana and her husband Dan Brown, her granddaughter and great grand-daughter Sarina and Samantha Schroeder, her grandson-in-law Luke Amstutz, and several friends were on hand for the presentation.  First grade teacher Gail Dembickie presented the watercolor, which will be on display in the school media center.