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Mattie Ford August, longtime teacher, dies at 75 | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Breaking News for Dallas-Fort Worth | Dallas Morning News
Mattie Ford August had a special quality for giving nursing care, and she used those skills to help students and children with hearing disabilities.
She taught at state schools in Arkansas, Kansas and Texas before beginning her 23-year career working with deaf students in the Dallas Independent School District.
Mrs. August, 75, died July 21 of complications of Alzheimer's disease at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas.
Services will be at 11 a.m. today at New Hope Baptist Church in Dallas, where she was an active member. Graveside services will be at Restland Memorial Park.
Mrs. August had a passion for children since she was a nursing student on a five-year work-study program at the Tuskegee Institute, now Tuskegee University, said her husband, Taylor August of Dallas.
"She worked on the children's ward, so she had ... affection for children ... particularly with children with disabilities," Mr. August said.
Mrs. August's nursing talents were "part of her calling," he said. "It was also manifested through our children and grandchildren. She was one of the most selfless people that I've known."
Mrs. August was born in Whiteville, N.C., where she graduated from high school. She attended the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama and Philander-Smith College in Little Rock , Ark., before she received her bachelor's degree from the University of Arkansas. She later earned a master's degree from the University of Kansas.
She taught blind and deaf students at state schools – moving with her husband as he was transferred to positions with the U.S. Department of Education. In 1966, they moved to Austin. She taught at the Texas State School for the Deaf until moving in 1971 to Dallas, where she worked for three years the Callier Hearing and Speech Center.
Mrs. August next taught at a state school in Olathe, Kan., before she and her husband returned to Dallas in 1979.
Back in Dallas, she taught deaf students at Samuell High School and became a district parent adviser with the Callier center, now Callier Center at UT-Dallas.
"She worked with deaf and hard-of-hearing infants," her husband said. Federal law requires school districts to identify infants with disabilities and help the parents prepare for their education, Mr. August said.
She retired from DISD in 2002. Mrs. August was a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority, the Dallas chapter of Links Inc. and Circle-Lets Inc.
In addition to her husband, Mrs. August is survived by two sons, Taylor D. August II of Winterville, N.C., and Wilbert E. August of Dallas; a daughter, Marsha August Jones of The Colony; a sister, Virginia James of Charleston, S.C.; 10 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to the Alzheimer's Association.
Mattie Ford August had a special quality for giving nursing care, and she used those skills to help students and children with hearing disabilities.
She taught at state schools in Arkansas, Kansas and Texas before beginning her 23-year career working with deaf students in the Dallas Independent School District.
Mrs. August, 75, died July 21 of complications of Alzheimer's disease at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas.
Services will be at 11 a.m. today at New Hope Baptist Church in Dallas, where she was an active member. Graveside services will be at Restland Memorial Park.
Mrs. August had a passion for children since she was a nursing student on a five-year work-study program at the Tuskegee Institute, now Tuskegee University, said her husband, Taylor August of Dallas.
"She worked on the children's ward, so she had ... affection for children ... particularly with children with disabilities," Mr. August said.
Mrs. August's nursing talents were "part of her calling," he said. "It was also manifested through our children and grandchildren. She was one of the most selfless people that I've known."
Mrs. August was born in Whiteville, N.C., where she graduated from high school. She attended the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama and Philander-Smith College in Little Rock , Ark., before she received her bachelor's degree from the University of Arkansas. She later earned a master's degree from the University of Kansas.
She taught blind and deaf students at state schools – moving with her husband as he was transferred to positions with the U.S. Department of Education. In 1966, they moved to Austin. She taught at the Texas State School for the Deaf until moving in 1971 to Dallas, where she worked for three years the Callier Hearing and Speech Center.
Mrs. August next taught at a state school in Olathe, Kan., before she and her husband returned to Dallas in 1979.
Back in Dallas, she taught deaf students at Samuell High School and became a district parent adviser with the Callier center, now Callier Center at UT-Dallas.
"She worked with deaf and hard-of-hearing infants," her husband said. Federal law requires school districts to identify infants with disabilities and help the parents prepare for their education, Mr. August said.
She retired from DISD in 2002. Mrs. August was a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority, the Dallas chapter of Links Inc. and Circle-Lets Inc.
In addition to her husband, Mrs. August is survived by two sons, Taylor D. August II of Winterville, N.C., and Wilbert E. August of Dallas; a daughter, Marsha August Jones of The Colony; a sister, Virginia James of Charleston, S.C.; 10 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to the Alzheimer's Association.