Thank you for visiting SNEWPapers!
Sign up free
The Glacier Reporter
Browning, Glacier County, Montana
What is this article about?
Mrs. Rupert Anderson resigns from 12+ years at Yakima Indian Agency to take federal job in Spokane, WA; husband retires after 34 years; family background and plans to relocate. (148 characters)
Clipping
OCR Quality
Full Text
TOPPENISH, WASH. Mrs. Rupert Anderson, nee Hattie Monroe, secretary to superintendents at the Yakima Indian Agency at Toppenish for more than 12 years, has resigned to take a position with the federal Land Operation Office in Spokane.
Her husband expects to retire in August from the Yakima Agency where he is real property assistant. He will have had 34 years with the government service.
The Andersons plan to live in Spokane after his retirement.
Mrs. Anderson is a graduate of Haskell Institute in Lawrence, Kansas, and met her husband there. She entered government service at the Umatilla Agency in Pendleton and also worked at the district attorney's office there.
Anderson transferred to the Yakima Agency in 1942 and Mrs. Anderson took a position in the forestry department of the Agency the next year. After one year in that position she became secretary to I. W. Shotwell, superintendent.
She has served as secretary to three superintendents, Shotwell, Perry E. Skarra and D. E. LeCrone.
The Anderson's have two children. Harold F. who ranches near Browning, Mont., where Mrs. Anderson was born, and Mrs. Paul Benz, Jr., of Toppenish.
What sub-type of article is it?
What themes does it cover?
What keywords are associated?
What entities or persons were involved?
Where did it happen?
Story Details
Key Persons
Location
Toppenish, Wash.; Spokane, Washington; Yakima Indian Agency; Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas; Umatilla Agency, Pendleton; Browning, Mont.
Story Details
Mrs. Rupert Anderson, nee Hattie Monroe, resigns after over 12 years as secretary at Yakima Indian Agency to join federal Land Operation Office in Spokane. Husband Rupert to retire in August after 34 years. They plan to live in Spokane. She graduated from Haskell Institute, met husband there, worked at Umatilla Agency and district attorney's office. Family transferred to Yakima in 1942; she joined forestry then became secretary to three superintendents. Two children: Harold F. ranching near Browning, Mont., and Mrs. Paul Benz, Jr. in Toppenish.