In July 1882, Anna Rath took over the school in Sarepta, where her father had moved, with the young Maria Thomas as her assistant.
Local farmers and other community members each donated 500 or more bricks so the school, consisting of two classrooms, could open Easter Monday 30 March 1891.
In both places, she educated the mission employees' children, but sources are unclear as to whether she taught in both simultaneously or consecutively.
[2] Anna moved to Wellington, Western Cape, where her father lived in the town rectory; he died in 1903, while visiting his elder daughter, and was buried in Sarepta.
Pauw, retired as a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa (NGK) in 1910 to a £100 stipend (in the days before pensions).