Evelyn Hockenberry, 96, of Connoquenessing Township holds up an eighth-grade class photograph from the Buttercup one-room school house she attended.

CONNOQUENESSING TWP — Evelyn Hockenberry recalls her elementary school days with much happiness, even though the comfort of modern amenities was decades away.

Hockenberry, 96, lives just a few hundred feet down Double Road from the home where she grew up and left early each morning to walk to school in a one-room schoolhouse.

While a student in grades one through four, she attended the Buttercup School, which was on Evans City Road across from the current Boylan Funeral Home and Cremation Center.

When Hockenberry was a student in the rural school, students carried buckets of water from the building that is now the funeral home.

At that time, it was the palatial country residence of the George Spang family, who owned a manufacturing business in Butler.

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