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George Henry Lacy Sr. served Princeton schools from 1946 to 1960, and Annah Lou Lacy served Princeton schools from 1950 to 1974.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Lacy were born in Collin County in 1908, and they both began their teaching careers in the early 1930s in a small country school located in the Thompson community just southeast of Princeton.

As well as teaching, Mr. Lacy’s responsibilities included serving as school principal.

Mr. and Mrs. Lacy continued to teach at the Thompson school until it was incorporated into the Princeton ISD in the early '40s. At the closing of the Thompson school, Mr. Lacy joined the faculty of Princeton High School and Mrs. Lacy put her teaching career on hold for a few years as their family began to grow.

Mr. Lacy’s classroom teaching assignments included math, science, algebra and history, as well as some class sponsorships. The very first week of the 1957-58 school term brought tragedy to PISD with the sudden death of then superintendent Paul G. Henderson. After the death of Mr. Henderson, the school board appointed high school principal L.R. Huddleston to the superintendent position and appointed Mr. Lacy to fill the high school principal position. Mr. Lacy served in that capacity until December of 1959, when he experienced a heart attack, which resulted in his sudden death.

Prior to the death of Mr. Lacy, Annah Lou Lacy had resumed her teaching career as a first-grade teacher in PISD, beginning with the 1950-51 school term. Mrs. Lacy had a fun-loving and caring personality that was always reflected in her students.

She always said she loved the young students that were in her care, and it was evident they loved their teacher. Mrs. Lacy continued to teach first grade until her retirement at the end of the 1973-74 school term.