From a Lake County Examiner article, probably from the early 1960s.
Visits Scene of Girlhood
Miss Bertha Lofftus, of Roseburg, visited here last week with relatives and looked up old family friends. A native of Lake County, she is the daughter of Christopher Columbus Lofftus, who owned the Crane Lake property now belonging to Bill Hickey. Mr. Lofftus died here July 23, 1913.
Miss Lofftus visited in Lakeview with her sister, Mrs. Bessie Bidegary, her niece, Mrs. Betty Arment, and other local relatives.
She was working in Medford as a long distance telephone operator when World War I broke out, and on March 28, 1917, she became the first woman in the Northwest to enlist with the Navy, a forerunner of the later-day WAVES. She served as a yeoman until her discharge in the spring of 1919, and took a Civil Service appointment with the Veterans' Administration.
After serving as personnel officer and administrative assistant with the VA at Boise, Ida., Livermore, Calif., Waco and Dallas, Tex., and at Denver, Miss Lofftus retired January 1, 1956, and made her home in Roseburg where she is employed in a real estate office.
She visited The Examiner to look up the published account of her father's death in the 1913 file and the account of her enlistment in the Navy.
Visits Scene of Girlhood
Miss Bertha Lofftus, of Roseburg, visited here last week with relatives and looked up old family friends. A native of Lake County, she is the daughter of Christopher Columbus Lofftus, who owned the Crane Lake property now belonging to Bill Hickey. Mr. Lofftus died here July 23, 1913.
Miss Lofftus visited in Lakeview with her sister, Mrs. Bessie Bidegary, her niece, Mrs. Betty Arment, and other local relatives.
She was working in Medford as a long distance telephone operator when World War I broke out, and on March 28, 1917, she became the first woman in the Northwest to enlist with the Navy, a forerunner of the later-day WAVES. She served as a yeoman until her discharge in the spring of 1919, and took a Civil Service appointment with the Veterans' Administration.
After serving as personnel officer and administrative assistant with the VA at Boise, Ida., Livermore, Calif., Waco and Dallas, Tex., and at Denver, Miss Lofftus retired January 1, 1956, and made her home in Roseburg where she is employed in a real estate office.
She visited The Examiner to look up the published account of her father's death in the 1913 file and the account of her enlistment in the Navy.
From a Lake County Examiner article, probably from the early 1960s.
Visits Scene of Girlhood
Miss Bertha Lofftus, of Roseburg, visited here last week with relatives and looked up old family friends. A native of Lake County, she is the daughter of Christopher Columbus Lofftus, who owned the Crane Lake property now belonging to Bill Hickey. Mr. Lofftus died here July 23, 1913.
Miss Lofftus visited in Lakeview with her sister, Mrs. Bessie Bidegary, her niece, Mrs. Betty Arment, and other local relatives.
She was working in Medford as a long distance telephone operator when World War I broke out, and on March 28, 1917, she became the first woman in the Northwest to enlist with the Navy, a forerunner of the later-day WAVES. She served as a yeoman until her discharge in the spring of 1919, and took a Civil Service appointment with the Veterans' Administration.
After serving as personnel officer and administrative assistant with the VA at Boise, Ida., Livermore, Calif., Waco and Dallas, Tex., and at Denver, Miss Lofftus retired January 1, 1956, and made her home in Roseburg where she is employed in a real estate office.
She visited The Examiner to look up the published account of her father's death in the 1913 file and the account of her enlistment in the Navy.
Visits Scene of Girlhood
Miss Bertha Lofftus, of Roseburg, visited here last week with relatives and looked up old family friends. A native of Lake County, she is the daughter of Christopher Columbus Lofftus, who owned the Crane Lake property now belonging to Bill Hickey. Mr. Lofftus died here July 23, 1913.
Miss Lofftus visited in Lakeview with her sister, Mrs. Bessie Bidegary, her niece, Mrs. Betty Arment, and other local relatives.
She was working in Medford as a long distance telephone operator when World War I broke out, and on March 28, 1917, she became the first woman in the Northwest to enlist with the Navy, a forerunner of the later-day WAVES. She served as a yeoman until her discharge in the spring of 1919, and took a Civil Service appointment with the Veterans' Administration.
After serving as personnel officer and administrative assistant with the VA at Boise, Ida., Livermore, Calif., Waco and Dallas, Tex., and at Denver, Miss Lofftus retired January 1, 1956, and made her home in Roseburg where she is employed in a real estate office.
She visited The Examiner to look up the published account of her father's death in the 1913 file and the account of her enlistment in the Navy.
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