Nora Sterry
Nora Sterry was a teacher, school administrator, social worker, and public official in California, United States. She is best remembered today for her work during the 1924 Los Angeles pneumonic plague outbreak. Nora Sterry Elementary School in west Los Angeles is named in her honor. Biography Nora Juliette Sterry was born in Emporia, Kansas in 1879, the daughter of Clinton Norman Sterry and Louise Slocum Sterry, Louise (Slocum) Sterry. She had two brothers, Norman Sterry, and Philip Sterry, both White-shoe firm, "white shoe" lawyers, and a sister, newspaperwoman Ruth Sterry. Her father, Clinton Sterry, had been a lawyer for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, Santa Fe railroad. Sterry moved to California with her family in 1898 and started working as a teacher in Los Angeles schools around 1903. In 1924, at the time of the 1924 Los Angeles pneumonic plague outbreak, Los Angeles bubonic plague outbreak, Sterry was the principal of Macy Street Elementary School. Under h ...
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