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Ida Burruss Wroten, 93, teacher in Baltimore schools
PUBLISHED: December 18, 1999 at 12:00 AM EST | UPDATED: September 28, 2021 at 9:57 PM EDT
Ida Burruss Wroten, a longtime educator in Baltimore city schools, died Tuesday of heart failure at Saint Agnes Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Ellicott City. She was 93.
Born in Baltimore, she spent her childhood in Virginia and Pennsylvania, graduating from high school in Kennett Square, Pa., in 1927.
She returned to Baltimore to attend Morgan State College and graduated in 1931. From 1932 to 1935, she worked as an assistant registrar at her alma mater. She later was employed as a secretary in the Baltimore city school system.
In 1939, she married Thomas Wroten, who predeceased her. The couple had no children.
At the end of World War II, Mrs. Wroten took a teaching job at Carver Vocational-Technical High School, where she spent most of her teaching career until her retirement 25 years later.
In 1952, Mrs. Wroten earned a master’s degree in business education from New York University; that was her concentration for the rest of her teaching career. Teaching by day and night in city schools, Mrs. Wroten also helped place her students in jobs.
She guided young people outside the classroom as well, serving as the youth director of the Baltimore NAACP for several years. Mrs. Wroten also belonged to Zeta Phi Beta, a public service organization, and Lambda Kappa Mu, a business and professional women’s sorority.
A volunteer task she especially enjoyed was administering a Morgan State Class of 1931 Scholarship Fund in the name of classmate Dr. G. Franklin Phillips.
A Christian Scientist who read the Bible every day, she was a woman of great faith, friends said.
Pinochle and travel were her hobbies. Mrs. Wroten traveled throughout the United States, South America and Europe, shooting slides and movies wherever she went. She was known for her remarkable memory, said a close friend and sorority sister, Magdalene B. Fennell of Baltimore.