COLUMBIANA- The Columbiana Exempted Village School District has canceled Monday classes to allow staff and students to pay respect to a teacher who died from complications from the H1N1 virus.

According to schools Superintendent Don Mook, classes have been canceled so fellow teachers and students to attend the funeral of kindergarten teacher Cathleen Wagner, who died Wednesday morning after spending nearly three weeks in the Cleveland Clinic.

Services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Salem. A brief viewing period will be held one hour prior to the service. Calling hours will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday at Seederly-Mong & Beck Funeral Home in Columbiana.

Wagner, 55, had taught at Joshua Dixon Elementary for almost 30 years, receiving in 1991 the Myrtle Miller Marijane Werner Award for Exemplary Mathematics Teaching by the Ohio Council of Teachers of Mathematics, and, one year later, the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science and Mathematics Teaching for the State of Ohio.

Her husband, Ray, is a fifth-grade teacher at the district's South Side Middle School.

Kevin Howell can be reached at khowell@salemnews.net