Women in Bicknell filled prominent roles in family, education, medicine, and community life. Early women of the area delivered most newborn children and served the sick as nurses or midwives, including nursing cases of diphtheria, typhoid, and other contagious diseases. Women always worked on family farms and managed them during WWI and WWII, and during WWII they also served as Minute Women, salvaging rationed items to support the war. Bicknell women took a special interest in beautification, forming a civic club in 1965 to beautify the town, and they cultivated beauty and refinement in their handiwork, yards, homes, gardens, and home arts. Education was always a priority for early Church Settlers, and women opened their homes as early classrooms. The first school in present Bicknell is now the DUP building on Main Street. Wayne Middle School, Wayne High School, and the district offices have always been located in Bicknell, and an elementary school was there until it was combined with Loa's in 1972. Most educators were women, and one notable figure was Ann Snow, the only school superintendent to serve twice, who also wrote Rainbow Views, A History of Wayne County.