Background
She was born in Los Angeles, California.
She was born in Los Angeles, California.
She received her Masters degree from the University of Southern California in 1944. She went on to be the curator of the Heard Museum in Arizona for two years. She was a curator at the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, California from 1946 to 1964.
In 1964 she became the County Archeologist at the San Bernardino County Museum in Redlands, California.
She was a member of the American Anthropologist Association and the Society of American Archaeology.