Rachel lived in the country most of her growing years, attending small schools. She went to Gering High School a few years and Mitchell High School two years, graduating from there in 1944.
After graduation, her first job was personal secretary to the President of the Gering National Bank. She worked for him for three months before she took a secretarial position for a cannery and dehydration plant. They prepared food for the military during World War II. She was there for a short time.
She then took a civil service test which she passed and was offered a position with the Veterans Administration in Washington D.C. This was a very maturing and interesting experience.
Rachel was in D.C. for a little over a year but could not tolerate the climate, so she returned to Gering Nebraska. She found a secretarial position with the law firm of Raymond & Sheldon and worked there for 1 or 2 years. She later went to work in the private office of City Attorney James Anderson. When Mr. Anderson was elected Attorney General of the State of Nebraska, he invited Rachel to be his personal secretary. He served two years, resigning to join a prestigious law firm in Omaha Nebraska (Young & Williams). Rachel became his secretary there for a few years. He later left but Rachel stayed on for a few years.
Rachel then returned to Gering for awhile and then decided to go to San Diego. She first worked for a large firm for about a year and later went to work for a one man firm, where she worked until 1954.
When living in San Diego, she learned to play tennis, which became her favorite sport. She also enjoyed baseball and had many fond memories going to the baseball games with her father while she was growing up. After Rachel's father passed away, she returned to Gering and soon found employment at Sinclair Oil & Gas Co in Scott Bluff Nebraska as a secretary to District Landman. The company later moved their offices to Denver, and Rachel accepted a transfer. She was employed with Sinclair until 1960.
She was adventurous, travelling from D.C. to California. Her travels brought her many great experiences in life. She did a lot of sigh seeing in D.C., New York, Philadeplhia, etc.
In October 1960, she married Jerry Monroe. Together, they had two children, Steven and Linda. Rachel became a wife, and mother and homemaker. She enjoyed tennis and racket-ball. She enjoyed playing racket-ball at the downtown YMCA with her son. She enjoyed classical music, singing in the church choir, and was a deacon at her local church.
"I've had a good life".
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