[1] Ferguson, who never attended college and had no formal training, first joined a newsroom in 1943 by lying about her previous experience.
[2][5] After a column she wrote about the snub attracted nationwide attention, the Navy reversed their decision and gave her a personal tour.
[1][6] Ferguson began exclusively covering the Washington State Legislature in 1961, becoming the first full-time female reporter there for any newspaper.
Elected officials would rush to the one news stand that carried The Bremerton Sun in the Legislative Building to see who she had drowned in her column this week.
[5] In 1998 a bridge across Washington State Route 305 in Poulsbo was named "The Adele Ferguson Overpass" in her honor.