Background
Befame, Jeannette was born on July 15, 1919 in Wahpeton, North Dakota, United States. Daughter of Frederick and Sykea (Ashton) Befame.
Befame, Jeannette was born on July 15, 1919 in Wahpeton, North Dakota, United States. Daughter of Frederick and Sykea (Ashton) Befame.
AB, Stanford University, 1941.
Reporter San Francisco News, 1941, Sacramento Union, 1942. Now newspaper feature writer-reporter San Jose Mercury-News, California. Radio work, news reporter, interviews San Francisco, 1947.
Television guest appearances, 1956. Wrote newscasts for overseas World War II. One of 10 United States delegations Asian-American Women Journalist Conference, East-West Center, Hawaii, 1965.
Member American Association of University Women, Women in Communications (president Palo Alto-San Jose chapter 1975-1976), Stanford Alumni Association, National Federation Press Women, Inc. (chapter president), Theta Sigma Phi (alumni adviser Stanford University chapter), Sigma Delta Chi, San Francisco Press Club.
Married John Allen Sontheimer, August 10, 1968 (deceased). Married W. Gordon Eustice, May 7, 1976.