Margaret Lorraine "Raine" Dugger, a retired city first-grade teacher who lived in Ashburton for two decades, died Nov. 26 of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at Gilchrist Hospice Care. She was 86.
Margaret Lorraine Whyte was born in Baltimore and raised in the 200 block of Etting St. in West Baltimore.
After graduating in 1940 from Douglass High School, she earned a bachelor's degree in 1948 from what was then Coppin Teachers College, located on Mount Street. In 1965, she earned a master's degree in education from the Johns Hopkins University.
Mrs. Dugger, who was known as "Raine," began teaching in 1948 and spent most of her 30-year career at James Mosher Elementary School before retiring in 1978.
She had lived during the 1970s and 1980s at Harper House condominiums in Cross Keys before moving to Ellamont Road. For the past year, she had lived at Emerald Estates, a Northwest Baltimore assisted-living facility.