Broken Arrow Public Schools teacher dies

BROKEN ARROW, Okla. — A Broken Arrow seventh grade math teacher passed away, the school district announced Wednesday.

Trudy Garrett was a math teacher at Oneta Ridge Middle School and was a lifelong Broken Arrow resident, the school district said.

Garrett joined BAPS in 1999 as a math teacher at Central Middle School (later Centennial Middle School in 2002), where . Garrett remained until 2014, when she transferred to Oneta Ridge Middle School.

She was a sponsor for several different student activities, including Spirit Club, Math Counts Club and Drug Free Youth. She served as the math department chair at both Centennial and Oneta Ridge.

Garrett’s cause of death wasn’t immediately known.