Career
She started writing historical articles for the Watsonville Register Pajaronian in 1974. Her weekly column titled "That Was Watsonville" appeared every Thursday evening in that newspaper. She has also written articles for the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Salinas Californian and various other publications.
She authored nine historical books of Watsonville and surrounding areas.
1973 & 1974 - research of Watsonville 1976 – Research of William H. Weeks, Architect 1977 – Research of Gilroy, California 1979, 1982–1985 – newspapers on microfilm 1986 & 1987 – research of Carnegie Libraries 1988 – Research of Holy City "That Was Watsonville" (every Thursday since then) 2005 – City Council of Watsonville named her official city historian 2006 – Memorial bench in city plaza Married Monte Lewis of Watsonville in 1946 and they have four children, seven grandchildren and two identical twin great grandsons.
