Born February 4, 1890 to to George W. Good and Sarah A. (Chowning) Good. She attended Decatur Junior College and S. M. U. University.  She taught briefly in Young and Howard Counties before coming back to Carrollton to began teaching the 1st grade class in the Carrollton Public  School in 1924.  She retired from the CFB ISD in 1958.  She attended the First Baptist Church in Farmers Branch.  She passed away on Oct 11, 1969 at her home on Denton Drive in Farmers Branch and was laid to rest at the Keenan Cemetery in Farmers Branch.

FIRST GRADERS' TUTOR
Carrollton Teacher Nominated for Honor

CARROLLTON, Texas - Miss Ola Pearl Good, who  has been teaching school since 1909, is the nominee of Carrollton School Supt. R. L. Turner for Texas Teacher of 1954-55.
Miss Good began teaching in rural Young County, then taught at Big Spring, Hackberry School in Rural Dallas County and at Farmers Branch before beginning a 30 year career at a tutor of beginners at Carrollton in 1924.
"Around Carrollton," said Turner, "you hear it said quite often, 'You haven't been to school if you were  not a student in Miss Ola's first grade.'"
"Teaching, at best, is not an easy job: imparting the ABC's to normal, healthy 6-year-olds is apt to be exasperating. But it's a job Miss Ola has done so well that her first grade has become a Carrollton institution."
Superintendent Turner thinks there might be some fourth-generation youngsters in Miss Ola's current classes.
"It is certain, however, that Miss Ola has taught three generations of most  of the old families of northern Dallas County."
Miss Good, who holds degrees from North Texas State College and Southern Methodist University lives at 12411 Denton Dr. Carrollton.
After 45 years as a tutor of first graders, she isn't thinking about retirement.

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The Dallas Morning News - December 19, 1954
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams

THIS IS YOUR LIFE
Teacher at Carrollton To Be Honored Friday

CARROLLTON, Texas, - Ola Good, petite and blue-eyed, will be called to the auditorium stage at Carrollton High School Friday at 8 p.m.

The beloved little teacher, who has been instructing first graders in North Texas schools for 48 years, will be the subject of a "This Is Y our Life" program arranged by former students and other hometown admirers.

Ever since Ola Good, was named "Teacher of The Year" three weeks ago by the Carrollton's Women's Study Club, townspeople have been busy arranging this special program.

Mrs. Maurine Riddle, program chair man, Thursday predicted that the 800-seat auditorium will be jampacked.

"We are going to give her a gift of appreciation from the community," Mrs. Riddle said. "The money for the figt has been coming in steadily all week."

Miss Good who is described as being small, neat, trim and reserved was picked  by the Study Club "on the basis of her teaching ability; her work in the community and her work in the church."  She is a Baptist.

She left Farmers Branch, where she was born, in 1909 to become a first grade teacher at the True Rural School in Young County. She taught at Loving, Young County, then at Big Spring, Howard County, from 1911 till 1918.

She tutored at the Hackberry Rural School in Dallas County (now a part of the Carrollton School District) from 1919 till 1924. In 1924, she began a career of 34 years as a first grade teacher in Carrollton.

"She is a very dedicated person," explained Mrs. Walter Blanton whose for children were in Miss Good's first grade. "She had dedicated her life to her students, her church and her community."

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Dallas Morning News - May 16, 1958
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams

Miss Good, Teacher, Dies at 79

Miss Ola Pearl Good, 79, of 12411 Denton Drive in Farmers Branch, a first-grade teacher in the North Texas area from 1909 until her retirement in 1958, died here Saturday.
She was a lifetime resident of Farmers Branch and a member of the First Baptist Church there. She had been a teacher in the Carrollton-Farmers Branch District since 1918.
She was named Carrollton's "Teacher of the Year" in 1958. She had earlier been awarded a lifetime membership in the Carrollton PTA for outstanding achievements in her profession.
She is survived by a sister, Mrs. Florence Butler of Abilene.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday in the First Baptist Church of Farmers Branch. Burial will be in the Keenan Cemetery in Farmers Branch.

The Dallas Morning News - October 12, 1969
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams

Services Held for Miss Good

Funeral services were held Monday afternoon in the First Baptist Church in Farmers Branch for Miss Ola Pearl Good, 79, a popular school teacher in the Carrollton-Farmers Branch area for many years, who died Saturday. Burial was in Keenan Cemetery in Farmers Branch.

Miss Good, of 12411 Denton Drive in Farmers Branch, was a school teacher in the Carrollton-Farmers Branch School District from 1918 until her retirement in 1958.

She began her career as a first grade teacher in this area in 1909. She was a lifelong resident of Farmers Branch and a member of the First Baptist Church in Farmers Branch.

Miss Good was awarded a lifetime membership in the Carrollton PTA for outstanding achievements in her profession, and in 1958 she was named Carrollton's "Teacher of the year."

She is survived by a sister, Mrs. Florence Butler of Abilene.

1969
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams

OLA PEARL GOOD
FEB 4, 1890
OCT 11, 1969

Keenan Cemetery, Farmers Branch, Dallas Co., TX