Globe offers update on Diamond teacher, husband

Diamond High School math teacher Julia Price-Allison and her husband, Rick Allison, were in stable condition Thursday in a Springfield hospital following the I-44 pileup that killed two Wednesday morning, according to an article in today's Joplin Globe.:

Among those injured in the ensuing crashes were Diamond schoolteacher Julia Price-Allison, 41, and her husband, Ricky Allison, 62, both of Quapaw, Okla. They suffered serious injuries and, after being flown to St. John’s Regional Medical Center in Joplin, were transported to a hospital in Springfield.

Diamond Superintendent Patricia Wilson on Thursday morning said faculty and students were heartened by news that the Allisons were listed as being in stable condition in the burn unit of St. John’s Regional Health Center in Springfield.

“They hold on to that,” Wilson said of the students, teachers and staff.

Wilson said Price-Allison, a high-school math teacher, has been with the district for 11 years. Every school day, her husband drives her to school and picks her up, Wilson said.

Price-Allison often arrives early and stays late to tutor students, and to help with the academic team, Wilson said. The Allisons also are fixtures at football games, where they work the ticket gate.