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Martha-Jean Rockey ( Credit: Harman-Rohde Funeral Home )
(KNZA)- A longtime Troy educator is being remembered.
Martha-Jean Rockey died Sunday at the age of 74.
She taught English at Troy High School for 42 years before retiring in 2016. Rockey also took on the responsibilities through the years of directing plays, coaching the forensics team, sponsoring the school newspaper and yearbook, and leading T-Club
She was awarded the USD 429 Master Teacher of the Year in 1998-1999.
In 2017, the school district named the Troy High School original gym/auditorium in honor of Martha-Jean and her husband, Mick, who also taught and coached in USD 429.
Services for Rockey will be held Friday afternoon at 2:00 at the United Methodist Church, in Troy.
Among survivors are her husband, Mick.
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