File:Josephine Corliss Preston obituary in the Seattle Daily Times on Friday, December 12, 1958.png

Mrs. Preston, Ex-School Official, Dies. Mrs. Josephine Corliss Preston, 85, former state superintendent of public instruction, died Wednesday in Renton. She had lived in recent years in Burton, Vashon Island. Funerals services will be held at 1 o'clock Monday in the Burton Community Church. Burial will be in Mountain View Memorial Park, Tacoma, under the direction of the Tuell Funeral Home, Tacoma. Mrs. Preston was born in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. She came here in 1900 and taught in the Maple Valley School. She was county superintendent of schools in Walla Walla before she became state superintendent in 1910. She was state superintendent 16 years. Mrs. Preston was a pioneer in the work of remedial classes. She was a life member of and a past president of the National Education Association. Last summer she attended the association's convention in Cleveland. Mrs. Preston was a 50-year member of the Order of Eastern Star and a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Burton Community Church. Among her nephews and nieces who survive is John Corliss, Tacoma.

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