Mrs. Merry Leerssen is our teacher for Grades 1 and 2.

She grew up in Wood Lake, MN. After graduating from Martin Luther Academy in 1979, she attended Martin Luther College in New Ulm, from which she graduated in 1983. Her first teaching assignment was to teach 1st grade at St. John’s in Baraboo, WI. The following year, she filled the 3rd Grade teacher position and continued teaching 3rd grade for 6 more years. In 1990, she married her husband Dennis and moved to a farm between Rockford and Buffalo. Since then they have been busy raising their 3 children. She began her call at Salem in 2006.