mary francis attended a.o. sex ton elementary school and went onto graduate from inglewood high school in 1948. she received her b.s. degree in 1952. mary francis received her master's degree in educational administration from xavier university in 1957, and her doctorate in education from university of california berkeley in 1962. her marriage took her from chicago to cincinnati, ohio, and subsequently to san francisco, california, in 1958, where she began teaching with the san francisco unified school district. her marriage to ted bird would end, but she would remain in the bay area and would go to onto serve as an educator and administrator with the district for 43.5 years. she heldmany positions with the district, including assistant principle at samuel gonyars high school, and coordinator for human resources services. she retired as a program director for state and federal projects in 2001, and in 2010, she moved to salt lake city to be close to her daughter. she heldmany education memberships, among them,

mary lincoln entered this front parlor. and she sat on a horsehair sofa in this room. this was the front parlor of the borders, georgia hilde francis who quickly vacated the premises when when the first lady was brought in. mary lincoln would spend much of the night of april 14th in the early morning hours of april 15th in this room. she didn't spend the night at her husband's side. she spent most of the night here with some close friends. she was very upset. she really couldn't stand to see her husband wounded and unconscious and so much of her time was here crying sobbing when clara harris one of her theater guests that and i came in and mary lincoln saw. harris's dress covered with blood mary began screaming. my husband's blood. my husband's blood. it was actually the blood of major rathbone miss harrison's fiance. he had been stabbed by booth and he bled heavily and much of the blood was on his fiance's dress. so mary lincoln was wrong. it was not her husband's blood. it was major rathbon's blood major rathbone came here. and he leaned against the wall in the hallway and soon he sat down and collapsed and fainted and then he wa