Atchison High School

A remarkably resilient woman known by most as Polly (Jackson) Jones and by many, many others as Grandma Polly, she just recently attended the 75th anniversary of her high school graduation from Atchison High School as one of the few surviving members of the class of 1949.Polly’s lifelong resilient nature has allowed her to raise seven children as a single mom and those children eventually gave Polly twenty-two grandchildren, thirty-six great-grandchildren, and seven great-great-grandchildren.