With his adjustment, together with four or five that my sister gave her, she was sick only three days. On the fourth day, under protest from my sister who was a chiropractor, she walked seven blocks to town and back. She became well so soon that I almost refused to believe that she had the flu.
Later on, my son when only a year old, became very ill with bronchitis. My husband and I took him to several medical specialists without any worthwhile results. We called a chiropractor, as a last resort, and were amazed at the rapidity of his recovery. We discussed this amazing cure at length and came to the decision that, if chiropractic could do as much for the health of other individuals as it had done for our son we wanted to become chiropractors.
Aiming for this goal, we left Tulsa, Oklahoma, our home, and moved to Davenport, Iowa. We enrolled in the fall semester of 1931 at the Palmer School of Chiropractic. After graduating in January, 1934, we moved directly to Houston, Texas and opened our first office. We practiced there until the fall of 1947 when we moved to Pasadena, Texas and opened an office. I continued in the same location and have remained here ever since.
Though I was skeptical when my oldest sister began to practice, it was no doubt that part of the inspiration to become a chiropractor was due to her, who had been one of the pioneers of chiropractic in Missouri.
In 1944 I completed the course in Logan Basic Technique and received my state license from the Texas Board of Chiropractic Examiners in 1949.
I have served as Chairman of the Public Health Committee of District #11 of the Texas State Chiropractic Association and received a plaque in recognition of outstanding work and devotion to professional advancement in 1952-53. In 1955-56 I served as president and in 1959-60 as secretary for District #11 of the Texas State Chiropractic Association and also as chairman of various committees. While serving in capacity of president I was awarded a plaque in recognition of outstanding work and professional advancement.
I have been Chairman of the Texas State Chiropractic Association Scrapbook Committee and am presently serving as Chairman of the Screening Committee. I have been active in civic affairs and a member of such organizations as the Business and Professional Women’s Club of Pasadena, Delta Rho Delta Business and Professional Women’s Sorority, the Eastern Star and the Pasadena Chamber of Commerce.
I am a Convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and have taught a Sunday School Class there for several years.
The Keeler Plaque was presented to me by the Texas State Chiropractic Association for meritorious service to chiropractic, at the convention held in El Paso, Texas in 1957.
My son-in-law is now studying chiropractic in his last year at the Texas Chiropractic College and will be joining me in practice in the summer of 1962.
