A Guthrie mother who in 1918 froze in terror when a newsboy shouted that her husband was killed on a torpedoed ship, was back in Guthrie Friday as the honored guest of the American Legion post named for her husband.

Mrs. Leo LeBron, now a quietlyassured school teacher of almost 30 years' experience, was guest at the installation of officers of the LeBron American Legion auxiliary in Guthrie.

She spent Thursday night and this morning in Guthrie visiting old friends, and brought with her a picture of her husband which she gave to the Legion post.

Mrs. LeBron explained Friday that they had been married more than 12 years, and had lived in Guthrie 10 years when in 1916 Leo LeBron volunteered for the army. In civilian life he was a civil engineer, so he became a captain of engineers in the army.

"His ship the Tuscania went down off the coast of Ireland February 6, 1918," the gray-haired teacher explained. "I believe it was the first vessel torpedoed and sunk in the first World War."

"I was on the street at the time and heard a newsboy calling that an Oklahoma captain had been killed in the disaster." She said letters from her husband reached her after she learned of his death.

The Legion post here was named after LeBron on its founding.

.....platinum ring that they sent back to me with Leo's personal effects," Mrs. LeBron added.

"I've worked since 1918," she continued, "most of the time a teacher of psychology. I've liked the work and tried to make it my life." She spent 25 years in the Oklahoma City school systems. She is now working as a school psychologist at Durango Colorado.

"I enjoyed more than anything in my life helping a number of returned GI's after the Second World War, "she explained.

"They were grown-up men who wanted desperately to complete their high-school educations, and' I had the privilege of helping? them." She taught several classers of the eager returned warriors. "Some of them occasionally felt alone their arms and rubber old. wounds, which still had pieces of metal in them."

"I like boys and I like to help them," she concluded. "Since my husband was killed that's been very important to me, and I hope it will be for many years to come."

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