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remained an active member there- after. She was county director of the American Red Cross and was on the sanitation board, working in con junction with the health department. She was a member of the Pontotoc County and Oklahoma bar associa tions and also spent a great deal of time promoting the Women Lawyers Club, which became the Oklahoma Association of Women Lawyers. Awards, citations and plaques noting her many accomplishments lined the walls of her Ada office. As noted by fellow attorney Bob E. Bennett of Ada, Ms. Andrews was “highly respected and admired by all who knew her. She was a ded icated member of the bench and bar ... a tribute to our profession.” 13 Fred Andrews died in October 1977 at the age of 82. Individual Sources: Bob E. Bennett M. Jean Holmes 1. Wenonah Rutherford, “Judge Andrews Returning to Private Practice Here,” Ada Sunday News . 2. Georgia Nelson, “Women Reign as Justices,” The Daily Oklahoman , Oct. 13, 1957. 3. Rutherford. 4. Id. 5. Id . 6. Bob E. Bennett letter to author, May 29, 2002. 7. Nelson. ENDNOTES

Never marrying, Ms. Andrews “made her way through the diffi cult times of the Great Depression and raised her deceased sister’s children, Norma Wood Smith and James ‘Jimmie’ Smith.” 11 A “doer, not a spectator,” Ms. Andrews was active in com munity affairs. 12 She was a char ter member of the Business and Professional Women’s Association and served as president of the Wetumka chapter and legislative chairman and parliamentarian of the state organization. She was a recipient of the Ema Warmac trophy for being the outstanding member of the Ada Business and Professional Women’s Association. She also served as president of the Knife and Fork Club and the Ada Community Chest in 1961. She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star and was on the Board of Directors of Valley View Hospital. She worked as a volunteer for the American Cancer Society from 1955 to 1959 and

8. Id . 9. Id . 10. Id . 11. Bennett. 12. Rutherford. 13. Bennett.

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