She
did not go to high school, but passed entrance exams at 14 for River Falls Normal,
as it was called then. At the age of 16 she was teaching at a rural school. She returned to school graduating in 1909 after which she taught in Fort Morgan,
Colo. Her first trip to Montana was in 1909 visiting her uncle,
Isaac
C. Foster, a bookkeeper for the Kalispell Lumber Co. Then she went to Vancouver,
B.C. where her father
Turberville was editor of a daily newspaper. She taught on Gambier
Island, 50 miles from Vancouver.