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SAMPSON -- Edith K. Sampson passed away on February 13, 2006. Born to Maggie Sisson Johnston and Jordan LeRoy Johnston in Kahoka, MO on February 2, 1913, she was predeceased by her husband, Arnold I. "Terry" Sampson Jr., and by her sister, Marjorie Cecil Johnston. Edith graduated from Austin High School in 1929, and received her Bachelor's Degree at the University of Texas at Austin in 1933, having made Phi Beta Kappa in her junior year. She received her Master's Degree at UTA in 1937, and received her Ph.D. at the University of Illinois in 1943. She was co-author with Marjorie C. Johnston of several textbooks and workbooks. Edith taught 16 years in public schools including 5 years at the University of Illinois. She was appointed Head of the Foreign Language Department of Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, in 1943. She was the author of Regional Dances of Mexico. Edith was active in the Women's Council of Realtors and helped start the annual Balloon Fiesta. She was also very active in the Luminaria Chapter of the American Business Women's Association. She was a member of Table II of the Pan American Round Table. Edith was a life member of the National Education Association, and of the National Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. She was a member of both Sigma Delta Pi (the Spanish Honor Association), and of Pi Lambda Theta (the Education Honor Association). She was a traveling salesperson for a photographic wholesaler in St. Louis. She met Terry while teaching at the American Institute for Foreign Trade in Arizona and they married in Bentonville, Arkansas, in 1952. Life in the military took them many places overseas and in the United States. Terry retired as a Major in the U.S. Army in 1966 and the family relocated to Albuquerque. Edith worked as a Welcome Wagon hostess for several years and then sold real estate for a number of years. She is survived by her daughter, Mindy Anne Sampson and grandson, Alexander Daniel Sterling; and by her other daughter, Ellanie Sampson and her husband, Henry "Hank" Clark Baisdon. According to her wishes, she has been cremated and her cremains will be interred at her husband's grave in the National Cemetery in Santa Fe. Also according to her wishes, there will be no services.
        Published on: Wed February 15, 2006