Career
She had hoped to work as an actress in Hollywood, but became a negative cutter and then an editors She was film editor on several notable Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films, including The Wizard of Oz, though she did not live to see the film"s spectacular success as a television perennial. She died at age 50. She had a son, Barton F. Sewell II, who died in January 1953.
She is interred in Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, California.