In all periods, there have been personalities who, despite difficult living conditions, have remained faithful to their profession and persevered in their mission. One such person was the brightly remembered Ona Kaušaitė-Tamulaitienė.
O. Kaušaitė-Tamulaitienė was a pupil of Pranas Mašiotas and a cousin of the writer Sofija Kymantaitė-Čiurlionienė. For some time O. Kaušaitė-Tamulaitienė was a teacher at the Kuro Primary School and served as the head of the school. Her husband, Bernardas Tamulaitis, was one of the first teachers of this school when he was still a seminarian, a Lithuanian patriot and volunteer. He was later murdered in Vilnius, in the Tuskulėnai Manor.
In 1941, O. Kaušaitė-Tamulaitienė was exiled to Siberia together with her young children, son and daughter. There, in the Altai region, she continued to teach. She returned to Lithuania in 1956.
Information prepared by Dalia Galminienė, Curator of Museum Activities of the Lithuanian Museum of Education
