Stella Hohncke

Stella H. Halsten, a poet and writer, was born on a homestead 10 miles northwest of Fargo, N.D., and educated in the Cass County schools.  Stella graduated from the Concordia Conservatory of Music, the Western School of Expression, and she received her high school diploma at the age of 70 through the North Dakota Division of Continuing Studies in Fargo.  She also attended a business college in Fargo, and studied drama at North Dakota State University.  Stella worked for the Charley Page Insurance Company, and later for the Cosgriff Insurance Agency, both of Fargo. Some of Mrs. Hohncke's poems were published in magazines, poetry booklets, and in Stella's Poems.  Her work also appeared in North Dakota Singing, a collection of poems written by native writers.  Humbly We Pray, a booklet of prayers by the members of the North Dakota branches of the National League of American Pen Women, was compiled by Stella when she was the state poetry chairman.

The collection contains correspondence related to Hohncke's career as a poet and editor as well as some family correspondence.
 

Literary, Music and Theater  Women