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Wuerfele, Alberta Irene, 1918-2006

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1918 - 2006

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Alberta Irene Wuerfele papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Wuerfele
Abstract Papers and materials relating to the life of Alberta Irene Wuerfele, a business executive who retired in 1984 as Senior Vice President and Comptroller of American National Bank, where she had started as a typist almost 39 years earlier. Wuerfele, who was brought up on a tenant farm in rural Kansas during the Depression and had very little formal schooling, made a career unusual for women of her era and mentored women who worked for her. Includes work and death records, correspondence,...
Dates: 1946-2006