About Erma Jean Loveland

Erma Jean Loveland attended public school in Murtaugh and was valedictorian at Kimberly High School. She married Charles Loveland of Midvale, the grandson of Bertha Pickett Ader, who arrived in Idaho by wagon train in 1881. Erma Jean taught school in Buhl and Burley, and earned Masters degrees from the College of Idaho and the University of North Texas. Now retired, she was a librarian for nineteen years in Abilene, Texas. The Lovelands have two children, five grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.