Mary's Extensive Career Resume
- Soda Jerk at 14 years old for Dad's Sandwich Shop at Third and Southern Parkway.
- Waitress at 16 years old for Sears Restaurant downtown at Ninth and Broadway.
- Clerk at Newberry's 10-cent store.
- Worked the counter, cashier, office help, and "floor lady" for Woolworth's 10-cent store on Fourth Street, where she once found a $5 bill left at the bra counter.
- Filing clerk at Federal Land Bank.
- Delivered telephone books.
- Census taker.
- Hung wallpaper for Grandpa Mack (Great granny's second husband).
- Refereed basketball.
- Republican party precint captain.
- Newspaper work for National Youth Administration (NYA) at Gibbs Inman Building at Tenth and Broadway. She went all over Kentucky.
- Assembly line work during WWII at Curtiss-Wright Aircraft. The airplanes were used in bombing missions overseas (B-52). Announced over loudspeaker that President Roosevelt had died when she was working third shift - 11pm to 7am.
- Assembly line worker at Seagram's Distillery. Worked there when they first opened.
- Assembly line worker for Brown-Forman Distillery.
- Playground director for city's recreation department at Harrison and Oleanda Park near Earl Avenue.
- Worked presses, autotype and punched holes in orders for AB Dick Printing Co.
- Substitute teacher while working at AB Dick.
- Graded papers for teachers.
- Her first teaching assignment was fourth grade at Tingley Elementary. Her following assignments were Finzer, Breckinridge, Schaffner and Hazelwood. She taught mostly 5th, sometimes 4th grade. Last nine years, 1-5 math. (Total 25+ years)